How To Be a Woman

How To Be a Woman

Taschenbuch
3.627

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Beschreibung

Listen to the brand new dramatisation of How To Be a Woman, narrated by Caitlin herself, as part of BBC Radio 4's Riot Girls season

Selected by Emma Watson for her feminist book club 'Our Shared Shelf'


It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain...

Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby?

Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin answers the questions that every modern woman is asking.

Buchinformationen

Haupt-Genre
Biografien
Sub-Genre
Memoiren
Format
Taschenbuch
Seitenzahl
336
Preis
13.00 €

Beiträge

3
Alle
5

Loved it. Caitlin Morans writing is honest, on point. Reading the book, I believed her every word and could relate quite a lot which made me really happy! Edit: Okay, I just read some other reviews and was quite stunned. I realize that Moran's vulgar language doesn't make her especially likable and sometimes might even be offensive. I gave five stars because I didn't expect some feminist manifesto but just the opinion of a woman a little older than me on some topics. This may be having children, having a wedding, buying an overly expensive and in the end useless handbag, stereotypes produced by the media and society as well as such harsh topics as abortion. By no means is this a book you should read if you want a feminist manifesto or don't like vulgar language, talking about drug abuse etc. I enjoyed the book because it's funny to me and relates to me and my personal life in some ways. This not a recipe to follow but states what's wrong with the world - sometimes in a prejudiced manner towards men and women. I think this book is meant to be as a help to think about one or the other topic and is by no means meant to equal Simone de Beauvoir or so.

3

It was a well written book, the humor was fine, yet very direct. I didn‘t agree on a few statement she made (I‘m not quite remembering everything), also namesdropping Lady GaGa and describing an event Moran and GaGa has been to kind of sounded like a violation of privacy. It sometimes felt like Moran was putting up a rule book on how to behave and not behave.

Put it on my dnf shelf for now. Might come back later. Couldn't take it serious and I wasn't a fan of the writing. Didn't feel like anything special or revolutionary so I don't want to waste my time with this right now.

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