Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM

by Breanne Fahs

  —. Indictment Paperwork Filed by Florynce Kennedy on Behalf of Valerie Solanas. Court Papers, June 7, 1968. MH.

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  —. Email message to author, June 30, 2008.

  —. Email message to author, July 13, 2008.

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  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  WORKS BY VALERIE SOLANAS

  “A Young Girl’s Primer on How to Attain the Leisure Class” [“For 2c: Pain, the Survival Game Gets Pretty Ugly”]. Cavalier, July 1966, 38–40, 76–77.

  Manifest der Gesellschaft zur Vernichtung der Männer S.C.U.M. Darmstadt: März Verlag, 1969.

  Manifest der Gesellschaft zur Vernichtung der Männer (SCUM). Frankfurt am Main: März Verlag, 1970.

  Manifest der Gesellschaft zur Vernichtung der Männer (SCUM). Berlin: Schlechtenwegen Marz-Verlag, 1982.

  Manifest der Gesellschaft zur Vernichtung der Männer. Reinbek, Germany: Rowohlt Taschenbuch, 1983.

  Manifest der Gesellschaft zur Vernichtung der Männer S.C.U.M. Augsburg, Germany: Maro-Verlag, 1996.

  Manifesto per l‘eliminazione dei maschi. Milan: Sperling, 1996.

  S.C.U.M.: Manifesto per l’eliminazione dei maschi. Translated by Adriana Apa. Milan: ES, 1994.

  “SCUM Book.” Mimeograph. Washington, DC, Library of Congress, 1967.

  S.C.U.M. Manifesto. Wellington, New Zealand: Herstory Press, 1977.

  S.C.U.M. Manifesto. With commentary by Paul Krassner. New York: Olympia Press, 1968.

  SCUM [Society for Cutting Up Men]. Translated by Emmanuelle de Lesseps. Paris: Editions Mille et une nuits, 1998.

  “SCUM Manifesto.” Mimeograph. Andy Warhol Museum Archives, Pittsburgh, PA, 1967.

  “SCUM Manifesto.” Mimeograph. University of Missouri–St. Louis Archives, St. Louis, MO, 1967.

  SCUM Manifesto. London: Matriarchy Study Group, 1983.

  SCUM Manifesto. London: Verso, 2004.

  SCUM Manifesto. New York: Self-Published, 1977.

  SCUM Manifesto. San Francisco: A. K. Press, 1996.

  SCUM Manifesto: Society for Cutting Up Men. London: Phoenix Press, 1991.

  SCUM Manifesto: Society for Cutting Up Men. With an introduction by Vivian Gornick. New York, Olympia Press, 1971.

  SCUM Manifesto (cili, Slem manifest). Olomouc, Czechoslovakia: Votobia, 1998.

  SCUM, manifiesto de la Organización para el Extermino del Hombre. Translated by Ana Becciu. Barcelona: Ediciones de Feminismo, 1977.

  SCUM Manifiesto de la Organización para el Extermino del Hombre. Translated by Ana Becciu. Madrid: Kira Edit, 2002.

  “Up Your Ass.” Unpublished manuscript. Andy Warhol Museum Archives, Pittsburgh, PA, 1965.

  “Up Your Ass.” Unpublished manuscript. Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1973.

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