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Bitches in Bonnets - Life Lessons from Jane Austen's Mean Girls (Paperback)
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Bitches in Bonnets - Life Lessons from Jane Austen's Mean Girls (Paperback)
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Have you ever recognized Mrs. Elton in an office colleague? Or
caught a glimpse of Lady Catherine de Bourgh in the neighborhood
crank? Have you spotted a young Emma Woodhouse in your teenage
daughter's clique? Over two hundred years after their creation,
Jane Austen's mean girls are still alive and kicking. Bitches in
Bonnets explores parallels between Austen's world and our own,
showing how modern social and behavioral scientists are just
beginning to document and quantify what the author knew
instinctively. Interweaving modern research and sociological
experiments, author and Austen scholar Sarah Makowski looks beyond
Austen's texts for the sources of female aggression both during the
Regency and today. Despite incredible advances in gender equality,
women still face discrimination and bullying from creche to career.
The cruelest assaults are those that are least expected - from
other women. Hardly a woman alive has not experienced a false
friend whose opinions and affection bring both positive and
destructive consequences. The very ordinariness of Austen's stories
leaves room for us to identify with her flawed heroines and make
peace with their enemies. Bitches in Bonnets examines how six
novels of quiet English life, penned by a parochial Regency
spinster, still provide insight on female relationships after all
these years and how Austen's writing - and our reading of it -
offers solace to millions of fans worldwide.
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