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Article: SHOOTING SOLANAS: RADICAL FEMINIST HISTORY AND THE TECHNOLOGY OF FAILURE.
- Article from:
- Feminist Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas, self-proclaimed revolutionary and author of the radical feminist document, the SCUM Manifesto, was catapulted from relative obscurity to media notoriety when she shot and nearly killed the pop artist Andy Warhol at the Factory, his studio in New York City. Twenty years later in South London, Mary Harron, a researcher for the BBC who had recently completed work for a television documentary on Warhol, happened to glimpse a newly published edition of the SCUM Manifesto in a Brixton bookshop window. Amazed to find this vestige of a long-lost radical moment on commercial display, Harron immediately bought a copy. On her way to work she read ...