Victoria Smith
Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*
Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*
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Hags explores the demonization of middle-aged women, why they are treated with such disdain, and offers potential solutions that can benefit all women. It is shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Prize.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 11 January 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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.
Weight: 292g
Dimension: 127 x 198 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349726984
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