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PublisherProfile Books The Limited

ISBN-101788162870

ISBN-139781788162876

eBay Product ID (ePID)14057281110

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Book TitleSomething Out of Place : Women and Disgust

Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Sociology / General

Publication Year2023

GenreSocial Science, History

AuthorEimear Mcbride

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight3.9 Oz

Item Length6.7 in

Item Width4.7 in

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ReviewsA brief and vivid polemic about disgust and shame and how they are used to such successful effect to disempower women ... 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 - New Statesman, Something Out of Place is an erudite contribution to that growing impulse in contemporary nonfiction: to cast one's testimony out into the void in the hopes that another will answer, and then another and another, and that each will be as exactingly executed, as deeply nuanced as the one preceding it - Irish Times, 'A fearless, interrogative work that speaks so much to structural inequality and misogyny. A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' - Sinead Gleeson 'A satisfying feminist polemic' - Susie Orbach 'A fierce, clear-eyed examination of the myriad ways in which women are objectified ... remarkable' - Stuart Kelly 'Formidable' - Hayley Maitland 'An invigorating call to refuse the disgust directed at women' - Herald

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal305.42

SynopsisEimear 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 blistering, galvanising essay from Eimear McBride, award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing . 'A fearless, interrogative work ... A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' - Sinead Gleeson 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 'Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing, a genius' - Guardian

LC Classification NumberHQ1233.M3 2022