 Solanas has also been credited with instigating radical feminism . Catherine Lord wrote that " the feminist movement would not have happened without Valerie Solanas . " Lord believed that the reissuing of the SCUM Manifesto and the disowning of Solanas by " women 's liberation politicos " triggered a wave of radical feminist publications . According to Vivian <unk> , many of the women 's liberation activists who initially distanced themselves from Solanas changed their minds a year later , developing the first wave of radical feminism . At the same time , perceptions of Warhol were transformed from largely nonpolitical into political martyrdom because the motive for the shooting was political , according to Harding and Victor <unk> . 
