Name: Everybody
Brand: Olivia Laing

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Bonus disc: No

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9781509857111

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Discs

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Download code: No

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Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format Books GB

Hardback

Format detail

Limited edition

Release date

2021-04-29

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Signed copies: Yes

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Macmillan

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1 / Extended format: Yes / Hardback / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: Yes

Artist

Olivia Laing

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Picador

The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, she 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. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Everybody is an examination of the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.

Everybody

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