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Everybody : a book about freedom / Olivia Laing.

by Laing, Olivia.

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.

Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957.

Human rights movements.

Essays -- 21st century.

English essays -- 21st century.

9780393608779 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Book about freedom

1st American ed.

349 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-346).

"Olivia Laing, the author of : 'To the river' , 'The trip to echo spring', and 'The lonely city' investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. Olivia Laing charts a course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the 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 McCarthy's America, Laing 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. 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."

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