Hags
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*
(Sprache: Englisch)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO PRIZE 2023
'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer
'Eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times
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'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer
'Eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Victoria Smith
Victoria Smith is a regular contributor to the Critic, writing on women's issues, parenting and mental health. Her work has also appeared in the New Statesman, the Independent and Unherd. Her newsletter, The OK Karen, looks at midlife women's experiences of feminism, and she tweets @glosswitch. She holds a PhD in German literature, with a particular interest in Romanticism and dark fairy tales. She lives in Cheltenham with her family.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Victoria Smith
- 2024, 368 Seiten, Maße: 12,6 x 19,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 0349726981
- ISBN-13: 9780349726984
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.12.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
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
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