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Deliver Us From Love. A Radical Feminist Speaks Out.
NY: Delacorte Press, 1976. First English-language edition (first published in Denmark in 1973). 8vo. 298pp.
SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page: “For William [Levy] from Suzanne with love. Knudstrup, Dec. 1976”.
Brøgger’s first book, in which she describes monogamy as “legalized cannibalism”, ‘transvestites’ as “guerrillas of the war between the sexes”, and, in one chapter, recounts her experience of rape in Uzbekistan, a version of which she mentions had been published in Suck “in the conviction that rape can’t be a private matter… [and] because no commercial paper would print a rape report on my terms” (p.134).
Fore-edges partially age-toned; offsetting to title-page and prelims. from contemporary Sunday Times review clipping laid in; o/w Very Good in dw.
