Susan Sontag's new collection of essays, "On Women," was compiled by her son David Riff from texts written and published from 1972 to 1975, during one of the most resonant periods of the women's movement in the United States. Sontag's controversial 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 discussions in letters with poet and feminist Adrienne Rich. Mixing live journalism and generalizing analytics, Sontag raises issues of double standard of aging, Female Sexual Validity , Women's relationship to each other , Women's Movements with Other Revolutionary Movements , Women's Self-Aggression , The Ideal of Beauty , The Erosion of Fascism , plurality of feminist positions and other. The collection reflects the turbulent era of the early 1970s, as well as the path of the Sontag itself, without losing critical relevance to this day.