![]() “Sex is the refuge of the mindless,” Valerie Solanas wrote in her radical SCUM Manifesto, a modest proposal for the abolition of men. Gornick collected some of their writings in a furious, colossal anthology, Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness (1971), and as she adopted their ideas, her life came into focus. ![]() She met Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kate Millett, and Shulamith Firestone-feminists of the second wave who wanted more than equal rights they wanted to overthrow the entire system of sexual relations. She didn’t find the “right man” and, it turned out, she didn’t have to: She got a job writing for The Village Voice, and her editor sent her to report on the women’s liberation movement. THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY: A MEMOIR by Vivian Gornick Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 192 pp., $23.00 ![]()
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