We both knew something very bad was on its way whether natural or political, or both, we could not yet tell.” “We had both been in conflict areas and we had both lived in close societies - we recognized their movements. She moves on to give us a vivid picture of normal life in her New York neighborhood in the Bronx, its bustling life in all its diversity, suddenly struck down by the lockdown.
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Reflecting, Wolf now sees the news of this first lockdown in Europe as an indication of a strike against the foundation of free Western society: “The flower of Europe was being struck down.” The author is at a conference in London surrounded by friends when she first hears about the lockdown in Italy. The book starts with a description of normal pre-pandemic life. She switches between discussion and analysis of the situation at each stage and different aspects of it, and a kind of personal diary of how she and those around her were affected. Wolf‘s book is a travel through time, starting in March 2020, and ending this spring.
Reactions unprecedented in their severity never before have whole nations been locked up in their homes for weeks, even months on end, to battle a respiratory virus. In her new book, Wolf‘s subject is not so much the SARS-CoV-2 virus as the worldwide reactions to its spread, and the consequences of those reactions. Naomi Wolf is perhaps best known as a chief spokeswoman for third-wave feminism, a bestselling author and advisor to the campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Naomi Wolf addresses in her new book, “ The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human.” What changed in March 2020? How have things played out? What are the causes? What can we expect, looking ahead? Subscribe to The Defender's Top News of the Day.
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