Everybody
EverybodyOlivia Laing

Everybody (2021)

Olivia Laing

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""Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of Joseph McCarthy's America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century-among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world"--

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9780393608779
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304 pages

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Sophie Islington
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I did feel like it was trying to do quite a lot would be what I would say and I almost felt like I always felt like it was I couldn't get as deep into any of them as I'd have wanted to I would have preferred admittedly it's probably too much work and not for Olivia Laing to do but a whole non-fiction book on each of those topics however I did think it was interesting as a concept to be thinking about the different ways in which lots of bodies are politicized especially in conjunction with a lot of the books I’m reading about unwellness.

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