The new collection of essays by Susan Sontag, "On Women," compiled by her son David Rieff from texts written and published between 1972 and 1975, during one of the most resonant periods of the women's movement in the USA. Sontag's polemical and sometimes radical ideas about what it means to be a woman in the modern world are presented in critical essays, magazine questionnaires and interviews, as well as in letters exchanged with poet and feminist Adrienne Rich. Mixing vivid journalism and comprehensive analysis, Sontag raises questions about aging double standards, women's sexual validity, women's relationships with each other, the connections between the women's movement and other revolutionary movements, women's self-oppression, the functioning of beauty ideals, the eroticization of fascism, the plurality of feminist positions, and more. The collection reflects the turbulent era of the early 1970s as well as Sontag's own path, without losing critical relevance to this day.