michaelmarshall 's review for:

More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran

4.0

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This is by turns funny, insightful and heartbreaking. The main argument she's making is that middle-aged women find themselves taking on enormous and multifarious responsibilities, often with little or no thanks or reward, or even acknowledgment. Moran has always been funny, and her description of her and her husband waiting with bated breath for their kids to get on the school bus so they could have a hasty pre-work shag was everything you'd expect. But she also doesn't pull her punches when she talks about her child's eating disorder, or the ways in which gender role stereotyping harm men as well as women, or how stressed she feels when she's being pulled in 50 directions at once. It's a little episodic and disconnected in the way it's structured, but it's easy to read and gives you plenty to chew on.