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The Madwoman in the Factory: Valerie Solanas and the Feminist Imagination
When Valerie Solanas died in 1988 in a welfare hotel in San Francisco, she left a sharply polarised legacy: reviled by many as a demented groupie for her near-fatal 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol and revered by a few as a feminist visionary for her incendiary 1967 diatribe the SCUM Manifesto. This paper explores Solanas’s collisions with the art world and the women’s liberation movement and asks how her ideas, actions, and experience of mental illness illuminate the shadows of feminist history.
Date:
4 December 2025, 11:45
Venue:
Radcliffe Observatory
Venue Details:
History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Speaker:
Marybeth Hamilton (History Workshop)
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Part of:
Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Belinda Clark
