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...PHOTOGRAPHY by Susan Sontag; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 207 pages...
...best writing on photography,"Susan Sontag declares, "has been by moralists - Marxists or would-be Marxists - hooked on photographs but troubled by the way photography inexorably beautifies." The category includes its maker...
...refusal to accept the possibility that men might, change their attitudes to the patriarchal system forms the basis of another theme running through Of Woman Born. For what seems like years, Rich and Susan Sontag have waged an ongoing battle in the pages of the New York Review of Books on the relationship between marxist theory and feminism. According to Rich, the fact that patriarchy existed prior to capitalism proves conclusively that it will continue long after capitalism falls. The real "alienated labor," she suggests, is the labor of the birth process, and "the repossession by women of our bodies...
...Psychologist Wardell Pomeroy, co-author with Alfred Kinsey of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, "Snuff would head the list." The movie was banned in Baltimore, Wilmington, Del., and Orange County, Calif. In New York City, protesters picketed the theater showing Snuff. Such fledgling porn fighters as Critic Susan Sontag, Historian Martin Duberman and Author Grace Paley demanded censorship and prosecution...
...serves only to reinforce, the misconception that the women's movement is only for the well-off and well-educated. The women Ms. directs its articles at need its help a lot less than other women in this country. The women Ms. attracts can also be seen reading Susan Sontag's battle on feminism with Adrienne Rich in the current New York Review of Books, Young women, fat women, poor women, ugly women and old women have no place to go--except back to Seventeen, Good Housekeeping and Modern Screen...