This is a book about bodies in peril and bodies as a force for change. The author investigates the historical struggle for bodily rights until this age of technology, the forces arranged against freedom of the body, and how human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar (Berlin) to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, she researches some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Wilhelm Reich, Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X, and explores gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement.
Dossier about sexual violence and justice because of the international affair Strauss-Kahn and the German provincial Kachelmann. They have two aspects in common: the media reactions and the chances for the victims.