Victoria Smith

Broschiertes Buch

Hags

The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

Beschreibung

An examination of the torrent of ageism and misogyny currently directed against women in their forties and older.

Autor

Victoria Smith is a regular contributor to the New Statesman and the Independent, focusing on women's issues, parenting and mental health. Her newsletter, The OK Karen, about midlife women's experiences of feminism, was launched last year, and she tweets @glosswitch. She lives in Cheltenham with her family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fleet / Little, Brown Book Group
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 836627
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 124mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 291g
• ISBN-13: 9780349726984
• ISBN-10: 0349726981
• Artikelnr.: 62230534

Rezensionen

Her book traces the hatred and fear of the middle-aged woman back through history . . . The greatest joy of Hags is its lively erudition . . . This eloquent, clever and devastating book describes the last remaining acceptable prejudice, one that is now even posited as progress: the loathing of older women Janice Turner The Times