Everyday Sexism
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- $159.00
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After a series of escalating sexist incidents, Laura Bates started the Everyday Sexism Project, inviting women to write in with their experiences.
The response was astounding. Stories poured in from all around the world and the project quickly became one of the biggest social media success stories of the internet. The stories ranges from being harassed and wolf-whistled at on the street, to discrimination in the workplace and serious sexual assault, revealing just how normalised sexism had become.
Often shocking, sometimes amusing and always poignant, Everyday Sexism is a protest against inequality and a manifesto for change.
Welcome to the fourth wave of feminism.
‘If Caitlin Moran's How To Be A Woman is the fun-filled manual for female survival in the 21st century, everyday sexism is its more politicised sister'Independent on Sunday
‘A pioneering analysis of modern day misogyny’ Telegraph
**From the author of The New Age of Sexism and Men Who Hate Women**
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Sexism as it exists today in Western culture is a normal, everyday experience in the lives of women, according to Bates. She knows this from personal experience as well as from the thousands of women who have shared their experiences through the Everyday Sexism Project, a website founded by the author and dedicated to cataloguing instances of sexism. With pages of facts, well-reasoned and detailed arguments, and an expanding supply of painful stories of women and girls told in their own words, Bates shines an unrelenting light on sexist acts of oppression, laying in stark detail and clear language how sexism causes problems for women in every area of their lives, from girlhood to education to their working years. The argument she builds is inescapable: sexism affects everyone, with damaging consequences not just to women but to all people and to society as a whole, and no one could read this book and fail to be moved.
