How To Be a Woman
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4.2 • 44 Ratings
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In How to be a Woman, Caitlin Moran delivers a hilarious polemic on the pitfalls of womanhood in the modern age. Two parts memoir and one part manifesto, the audiobook brims with Moran’s signature wit and wild wordplay, recognisable to anyone familiar with her long-standing column at The Times. Energetically narrated by the author herself, this is a deeply funny and delightfully ribald listen, skewering topics such as pubic hair and the fashion industry. While her comic talents are indisputable, Moran also delves into thornier issues like abortion and childbirth with refreshing candour and honesty.
Customer Reviews
Meh
This is a memoir from 2011 that has a vague basic feminist structure. Honestly I’m not quite sure why it’s touted quite so strongly as something to be read If you’re interested in feminism. The book is comical in parts, but I found myself exhausted listening to the audio version voiced by the author.
The flaws in the book that I’m particularly disappointed weren’t picked up (along with the obvious N word, R word and such) by the editor are the contradictions in what she constitutes makes a woman, and then .. as I was driving listening my
Jaw dropped and I thought surely she’s saying this sarcastically;
“Even the most ardent feminist historian, male or female—citing Amazons and tribal matriarchies and Cleopatra—can’t conceal that women have basically done f-all for the last 100,000 years. Come on—let’s admit it. Let’s stop exhaustingly pretending that there is a parallel history of women being victorious and creative, on an equal with men, that’s just been comprehensively covered up by The Man.”
I beg to differ Moran. Maybe not covered up but certainly as a journalist you’d think she’d consider that potentially there is just less or no coverage of women’s achievements because women weren’t deemed worthy of the paper used to document their achievements. We are more and more discovering in the present day that there was infact a her story as well as history.
I don’t believe this should be included as a feminist text, but I’m also in fairness not sure Moran ever wanted it to be more than a funny memoir and perhaps we critique it too much and give her too much credit for knowing her stuff? It’s a very specific viewpoint from a white British northern feminists minimal cultural experiences.
Disappointing
I was so looking forward to this book but couldn’t even finish it. Didn’t find it funny or engaging