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On Women by Susan Sontag
3.5
informative reflective slow-paced

Oh Susan Sontag, the woman you are... 

The first two essays hit harder than the later parts of the collection, if only because the title is 'on women'. They're sharp and possess a clarity that illuminates the origin of current discourse. 

The parts on fascism are okay, if a bit muddled by a higher and more theoretical level of abstraction. They're more okay in light of the response and interview that follow because they offer some contextualization. 

However, the piece on Reich and fascism only tangentially hits on her womanhood which Sontag also tries to argue in the interview. (We need not always include the explicit mention of a feministic analysis because these power relations and struggles are a given. It can be more productive to turn our analysis to other power relations at play). While it hits upon some interesting nuance I feel like it dims the power of this collection.