The searing, must-read feminist essay from the author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
‘Fearless … A fierce and fascinating manifesto in Mc Bride’s persuasive prose’ Sinéad Gleeson
‘Formidable’ Vogue
In this galvanizing essay, Eimear Mc Bride unpicks the contradictory forces of disgust and objectification that control and shame women. From playground taunts of ‘only sluts do it’ but ‘virgins are frigid’, to ladette culture, and the arrival of ‘ironic’ porn, via Debbie Harry, the Kardashians and the Catholic church – she looks at how this prejudicial messaging has played out in the past, and still surrounds us today.
Mc Bride asks – are women still damned if we do, damned if we don’t? How can we give our daughters (and sons) the unbounded futures we want for them? And, in this moment of global crisis, might our gift for juggling contradiction help us to find a way forward?
‘A satisfying feminist polemic’ Susie Orbach
‘Remarkable’ Scotsman
‘Eimear Mc Bride is that old fashioned thing, a genius’ Guardian
About the author
Eimear Mc Bride’s debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing received a number of awards including the Goldsmiths Prize, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and Irish Novel of the Year. Her second novel The Lesser Bohemians won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She occasionally writes and reviews for Guardian, TLS and New Statesman.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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