Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust

In her debut book, Eimear McBride examines the contradictory forces of disgust and objectification that control and shame women, exploring how this prejudicial messaging has played out in the past and still surrounds us today. She asks how we can give our daughters and sons the unbounded futures we want for them and suggests that our gift for juggling contradiction may help us find a way forward in this moment of global crisis.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 12 August 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

The blistering non-fiction debut from the author of the critically acclaimed A Girl is a Half-formed Thing*As heard on BBC Radio 4 s Woman s Hour* A fearless,interrogative work that challenges the status quo and explores the complex dynamics of gender and power*A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride s persuasive prose*Sinéad Gleeson*There is something very exciting about contemplating a future for women where our disagreements about how best to live don t translate into weakness and division*Megan Nolan,New Statesman*Here,Eimear McBride unpicks the contradictory forces of disgust and objectification that control and shame women. From playground taunts of only sluts do it but virgins are frigid ,to ladette culture,and the arrival of ironic porn,via Debbie Harry,the Kardashians and the Catholic church - she looks at how this prejudicial messaging has played out in the past,and still surrounds us today.In this subversive essay,McBride asks - are women still damned if we do,damned if we don t? How can we give our daughters (and sons) the unbounded futures we want for them? And,in this moment of global crisis,might our gift for juggling contradiction help us to find a way forward? A satisfying feminist polemic*Susie Orbach*Remarkable*Scotsman*Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing,a genius*Guardian

Weight: 204g
Dimension: 120 x 185 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788162869
Edition number: Main