num_pages: 368
description:  The body is a source of pleasure and of pain at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious brilliant sixth book Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom using the life of the renegade 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 McCarthys America Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past centuryamong 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.
language: English
title: Everybody: A Book about Freedom
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company