How to Be a Woman Caitlin Moran

Published April 6, 2012 by Ebury.

ISBN:
9780091940744

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3 stars (1 review)

Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them?

Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on women's lives with laugh-out-loud funny scenes from her own, from the riot of adolescence to her development as a writer, wife, and mother. With rapier wit, Moran slices right to the truth—whether it's about the workplace, strip clubs, love, fat, abortion, popular entertainment, or children—to jump-start a new conversation about feminism. With humor, insight, and verve, How To Be a Woman lays bare the reasons female rights and empowerment are essential issues not only for women today but also for society itself.

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3 stars

I feel like many people misunderstood this book. I see a lot of angry rant reviews on here of people complaining about Moran being a privileged white faux feminist, and I get where they come from. I have no knowledge about Moran other than what I read in this book, but still I would like to defend this book a little bit. Simply because I think it can be good if you don’t have any expectations of it.

It’s not a manifesto and the word should NOT have been on the fucking cover. Because the book, had it been intended as a satirical telling of the life of a Western ‘quirky’ (or whatever) woman, it would’ve just been a funny read. She wrote from her own perspective and that was entertaining. She should not have turned her own perspective into a feminist manifesto because she doesn’t acknowledge other perspectives in …