![]() ![]() The singular glamour of Susan Sontag has done her some injustice, particularly where matters of sex and gender are concerned. They offer us only the spectacle of a ferocious intellect setting itself to the task at hand: to articulate the politics and aesthetics of being a woman in the United States, the Americas, and the world. They contain no ready-made ideas, no borrowed rhetoric-nothing that risks hardening into dogma or cant. Though the pieces are around fifty years old, the effect of reading them today is to marvel at the untimeliness of their genius. ![]() But the essays and interviews in “ On Women,” a new collection of Susan Sontag’s work, are incapable of aging badly. A certain anxiety besieges the critic asked to introduce a volume of earlier writings on women, lest she find the ideas expressed in them relics of a distant, less enlightened past. ![]()
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