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Hags

- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*
Af: Victoria Smith Engelsk Paperback

Hags

- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*
Af: Victoria Smith Engelsk Paperback
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO PRIZE 2023

''A book that could not be more necessary'' Observer

''Eloquent, clever and devastating'' The Times

''Deftly illustrates how ageist misogyny remains an acceptable prejudice'' Guardian

What is about women in middle-age and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone?

In the last few years, as identity politics has taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings, the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused.

Hags asks the question why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme - care work, beauty, violence, political organization, sex - and explores it in relation to middle-aged women''s beliefs, bodies and choices. Victoria Smith traces the attitudes she describes back to the same anxieties about older women that drove Early Modern witch hunts, and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so powerful today. The demonisation of hags has never felt more now.

Victoria Smith has decided in this book that she will be the Karen so nobody else has to be, and she ends on a positive note, exploring potential solutions which can benefit all women, hags and hags-in-waiting.

Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards announced 21 November 2023.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO PRIZE 2023

''A book that could not be more necessary'' Observer

''Eloquent, clever and devastating'' The Times

''Deftly illustrates how ageist misogyny remains an acceptable prejudice'' Guardian

What is about women in middle-age and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone?

In the last few years, as identity politics has taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings, the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused.

Hags asks the question why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme - care work, beauty, violence, political organization, sex - and explores it in relation to middle-aged women''s beliefs, bodies and choices. Victoria Smith traces the attitudes she describes back to the same anxieties about older women that drove Early Modern witch hunts, and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so powerful today. The demonisation of hags has never felt more now.

Victoria Smith has decided in this book that she will be the Karen so nobody else has to be, and she ends on a positive note, exploring potential solutions which can benefit all women, hags and hags-in-waiting.

Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards announced 21 November 2023.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9780349726984
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0349726981
Udg. Dato: 11 jan 2024
Længde: 35mm
Bredde: 198mm
Højde: 127mm
Forlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato: 11 jan 2024
Forfatter(e): Victoria Smith
Forfatter(e) Victoria Smith


Kategori Feminisme og feministisk teori


ISBN-13 9780349726984


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 368


Udgave


Længde 35mm


Bredde 198mm


Højde 127mm


Udg. Dato 11 jan 2024


Oplagsdato 11 jan 2024


Forlag Little, Brown Book Group