eBook, 322 pages
English language
Published 2011 by Ebury Digital.
1913: Suffragette throws herself under the King's horse
1970: Feminists storm Miss World
Now: Caitlin Moran rewrites The Female Eunach from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting smaller
There's never been a better 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 you get Botox? Do men secretly hate us? What should you call your vagina? Why does your bra hurt? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby?
Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin Moran answers these questions and more in How To Be A Woman - following her from her terrible 13th birthday ('I am 13 stone, have no friends, and boys throw gravel at me when they see me') through adolescence, …
1913: Suffragette throws herself under the King's horse
1970: Feminists storm Miss World
Now: Caitlin Moran rewrites The Female Eunach from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting smaller
There's never been a better 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 you get Botox? Do men secretly hate us? What should you call your vagina? Why does your bra hurt? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby?
Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin Moran answers these questions and more in How To Be A Woman - following her from her terrible 13th birthday ('I am 13 stone, have no friends, and boys throw gravel at me when they see me') through adolescence, the workplace, strip-clubs, love, fat, abortion, Topshop, motherhood and beyond.
The combination of outrageous memoir and opinionated insights on being a woman is more than the sum of its parts. Many nods of recognition, though not the outrageous parts :)
Desde luego no es una novela al uso, ni tampoco una autobiografía. Caitlin Moran nos hace un repaso de todas las cosas que afectan a las mujeres en su día a día, desde el tamaño de las bragas hasta el aborto, de la adicción a la comida a la maternidad, sin dejar títere con cabeza pero con un sentido del humor desbordante. Hacía años que no subrayaba tantos párrafos en un libro.
Es un libro que da que pensar.
