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SCUM Manifesto
	; Cover of the SCUM Manifesto
Author	Valerie Solanas
Publisher	Phoenix Press
Publication date	New Educational edition (Jan 1988)
Pages	31 pages
ISBN	978-0948984037
OCLC Number	28143771

The SCUM Manifesto (Society For Cutting Up Men) is a feminist tract written in 1968 by Valerie Solanas that calls for the gendercide of men. After being put in the spotlight for shooting Andy Warhol, Valerie Solanas later claimed that her writing was a satirical literary device^[1]^[2] to elicit debate.^[3]

[edit] Cultural influence

[edit] Film

Scum Manifesto is also the title of a 1976 movie written by Solanas and directed by Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig. Warhol later satirized the whole event in a subsequent movie, Women in Revolt, calling a group similar to Solanas' S.C.U.M., "P.I.G." (Politically Involved Girlies).

Solanas' creative work and relationship with Andy Warhol is depicted in the 1996 film, I Shot Andy Warhol, a significant portion of which relates to the SCUM Manifesto, and Solanas' disputes on notions of authorship with Warhol.

[edit] Literature

The title story of the Michael Blumlein short story collection, The Brains of Rats, employs the Manifesto to illustrate the male protagonist's hatred of himself and his gender.

Later in life, after serving a prison sentence for reckless assault with intent to cause bodily harm, Solanas tried to distance herself from the manifesto. In a July 25, 1977 interview with The Village Voice she claimed it was "Just a literary device... women who think a certain way are in SCUM. Men who think a certain way are in the men's auxiliary of SCUM."

Sisterhood is Powerful, a collection of radical feminist writing edited by Robin Morgan, included excerpts of the SCUM Manifesto.

[edit] Music

Solanas is quoted on the sleeve notes of the Manic Street Preachers debut album Generation Terrorists. Their song "Of Walking Abortion" on the album The Holy Bible is named after a quote from the manifesto. Liverpool punk band Big in Japan composed the song "Society for Cutting Up Men" directly inspired by the manifesto. San Francisco IDM group Matmos sampled the manifesto heavily in the satirical track "Tract for Valerie Solanas" on the album The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast.

[edit] See also

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Valerie Solanas

[edit] References

^ Cutting Remarks
^ Solanas, Valerie. Interviewed by Howard Smith, Village Voice, July 25, 1977 Issue, quoted in Scum Manifesto By Valerie Solanas, AK Press, 1996, ISBN 1873176449, p55
^ IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection

[edit] Further reading

Solanas, Valerie SCUM Manifesto AK Press, 1996. ISBN 1-873176-44-9
ASIN 0948984031

[edit] External links

The SCUM Manifesto at sbc.edu

[0] Cutting Remarks

[1] Solanas, Valerie. Interviewed by Howard Smith, Village Voice, July 25, 1977 Issue, quoted in Scum Manifesto By Valerie Solanas, AK Press, 1996, ISBN 1873176449, p55

[2] IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection

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