Shooting from the hip': Valerie Solanas, SCUM and the apocalyptic politics of radical feminism

Positioned as she is, at the beginning of second wave feminism in North America, Solanas' manifesto gets ignored by second wave feminist histories because the implication of her manifesto is the destabilisation of the defining category, the differentiation between men and women, that forms the basis of feminism's ability to represent itself, right at a point in time when cultural feminists were struggling to construct women as a category in order to effect social and political change.