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

Lizzie Skurnick

Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Seal Press
Country
United States
Published
26 March 2020
Pages
320
ISBN
9781580059190

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

Lizzie Skurnick

Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power.
Effortless,
Sassy,
Ambitious,
Aggressive : What subtle digs and sneaky implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons, warnings, praise and blame, bearing an outsize influence on women’s lives-to say nothing of our moods.

No one knows this better than Lizzie Skurnick, writer of the New York Times’ column That Should be A Word and a veritable queen of cultural coinage. And in PRETTY BITCHES, Skurnick has rounded up a group of powerhouse women writers to take on the hidden meanings of these words and how they can limit our worlds - or liberate them.

From Laura Lipmann and Meg Wolizer to Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Traister, each writer uses her word as a vehicle for memoir, cultural commentary, critique, or all three. Spanning the street, the bedroom, the voting booth and the workplace, these simple words have huge stories behind them - stories it’s time to examine, re-imagine and change.

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