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Susan Sontag is just the latest woman known to have had her work stolen by a man

Women are increasingly taking control of their narratives, but we will need a lot more books and films to right all the wrongs
Susan Sontag, who was erased from her first husband’s book after their divorce. Photograph: Wyatt Counts/Associated Press

Behind every great man is a great woman – as being beside him may betray his painful mediocrity, the truer saying would go. Now, a new biography of Susan Sontag claims behind her first husband Philip Rieff’s most famous book, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist. She has long been known as

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