Something Out of Place - Women & Disgust (Hardcover, Main)

The blistering non-fiction debut from the author of the critically acclaimed A Girl is a Half-formed Thing *As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour* 'A fearless, interrogative work ... A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' Sinead Gleeson 'There is something very exciting about contemplating a future for women where our disagreements about how best to live don't translate into weakness and division' Megan Nolan, New Statesman Here, Eimear McBride 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. In this subversive essay, McBride 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 McBride is that old fashioned thing, a genius' Guardian

General

Imprint:	Wellcome Collection
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Eimear McBride
Dimensions:	182 x 118 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages:	176
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-78816-286-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Sexual relations
LSN:	1-78816-286-2
Barcode:	9781788162869

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