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Article: Cutting remarks.(SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas)(Book Review)
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- The Nation
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- June 14, 2004
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SCUM Manifesto. By Valerie Solanas. Verso. 80 pp. $15.
In 1966 Valerie Solanas moved to New York City. At 30, she was already a woman with a difficult past. Growing up in New Jersey, she was molested by her father. She attended college at the University of Maryland, then did a year of grad school in the psychology department of the University of Minnesota.
She worked as a prostitute either during or after college, according to different accounts. Once ensconced in Greenwich Village, Solanas wrote an absurdist and quite filthy play titled Up Your Ass. Then, sometime in early 1967, she wrote the book that would change her life: the SCUM Manifesto.
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