Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women by Lizzie Skurnick

Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women

Lizzie Skurnick with Afua Hirsch (Contributor), Irina Reyn (Contributor), Stephanie Burton (Contributor), Lihle Z. Mtshali (Contributor), Carina Chocano (Contributor), Meg Wolitzer (Contributor), Jillian Medoff (Contributor), Lizzie Skurnick (Contributor), Rebecca Traister (Contributor), Dahlia Lithwick (Contributor), Laura Lippman (Contributor), Adaora Udoji (Contributor), Tanzila Ahmed (Contributor), Tova Mirvis (Contributor), Monique Truong (Contributor), Elizabeth Spiers (Contributor), Kate Harding (Contributor), Mary Pols (Contributor), Raquel D'Apice (Contributor), Emily Hopkins (Contributor), Bich Minh Nguyen (Contributor), Amy S. Choi (Contributor), Winter Miller (Contributor), Dagmara Domińczyk (Contributor), Katha Pollitt (Contributor), Glynnis MacNicol (Contributor), Jennifer Weiner (Contributor), Julianna Baggott (Contributor)

320 pages first pub 2020 (view editions)

nonfiction essays feminism sociology reflective medium-paced
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Leading women writers examine the power of the words that are used to diminish women Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless," "Sassy," "Ambitious," "Aggressive": What subtle digs a...

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