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    Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust

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    A blistering, galvanising essay from Eimear McBride, award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.
    ISBN: 9781788162876
    AuthorMcBride, Eimear
    Pub Date04/08/2022
    BindingPaperback
    Pages176
    AvailabilityCurrently out of stock. If available, delivery is usually 5-10 working days.
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    The blistering non-fiction debut from the author of the critically acclaimed A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

    *As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour*

    '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

    'Remarkable' Scotsman

    'Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing, a genius' Guardian

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    The blistering non-fiction debut from the author of the critically acclaimed A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

    *As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour*

    '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

    'Remarkable' Scotsman

    'Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing, a genius' Guardian