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Everybody : a book about freedom / Olivia Laing.
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. Olivia Laing charts a course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393608779
- ISBN: 0393608778
- Physical Description: 349 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-346). |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Laing, Olivia. Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957. Human body > Social aspects. Body image. Human rights movements. Liberty. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Part | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castlegar Public Library | 323 LAI (Text) | BCD47205741008963 | 35146002255370 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
