Everybody

<p><b>'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - <i>Guardian</i><br>'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>From the award-winning author of <i>Crudo</i>, this is an exhilarating and eminently readable study of the long struggle for bodily freedom &ndash; from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement.</b><br><br>Drawing on her own experiences in protest and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Nina Simone, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X.<br><br>At a time when basic rights are once again in danger, <i>Everybody</i> is a crucial examination of the forces arranged against freedom &ndash; and a celebration of how ordinary human