50 Years After The Publication Of 'the Feminine Mystique', Have Women Really Exchanged Purity And Maternity To Become Desiring Machines Inspired Only By Variations Of Sex, Shopping, And Masochism - All Coloured A Brilliant Neuro-pink? In This Volume, 50 Women Reflect On The Shades That Inspired Them And What Being Woman Means To Them Today. Machine Generated Contents Note: Fifty Shades -- 1. Naomi Alderman -- 2. Tahmima Anam -- 3. Lisa Appignanesi -- 4. Joan Bakewell -- 5. Camila Batmanghelidjh -- 6. Bidisha -- 7. Lydia Cacho -- 8. Shami Chakrabarti -- 9. Jane Czyzselska -- 10. Sayantani Dasgupta -- Do I Feel Like A Woman? -- Laura Dockrill -- 11. Lynne Featherstone -- 12. Carlene Firmin -- 13. Lennie Goodings -- 14. Linda Grant -- 15. Nathalie Handal -- 16. Natalie Haynes -- 17. Sharon Haywood -- 18. Lindsey Hilsum -- 19. Isabel Hilton -- 20. Rachel Holmes -- 21. Siri Hustvedt -- 22. Jude Kelly -- 23. Liz Kelly -- 24. Helena Kennedy Qc -- 25. Kathy Lette -- 26. Kate Mosse -- 27. Susie Orbach -- Alison Bechdel -- 28. Laurie Penny -- 29. Lisa Power -- 30. Nina Power -- 31. Alissa Quart -- 32. Diana Quick -- 33. Josie Rourke -- 34. Bee Rowlatt -- 35. Elif Shafak -- 36. Muneeza Shamsie -- 37. Hanan Al-shayk -- 38. Elaine Showalter -- 39. Gillian Slovo -- 40. Ahdaf Soueif -- 41. Martha Spurrier -- 42. Juliet Stevenson -- 43. Meera Syal -- 44. Shirley J. Thompson -- 45. Sandi Toksvig -- 46. Natasha Walter -- 47. Marilyn Waring -- Edited By Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes And Susie Orbach.

Appignanesi, Lisa; Holmes, Rachel; Orbach, Susie, 1946-

London: Virago

Abacus

Fleet

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Illustrated, 2014

May 06, 2014

London, 2013

324 pages ; 22 cm
50 years after the publication of 'The Feminine Mystique', have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping, and masochism - all colored a brilliant neuro-pink? In this volume, 50 women reflect on the shades that inspired them and what being woman means to them today
Contributors: Naomi Alderman, Tahmima Anam, Lisa Appignanesi, Joan Bakewell, Camila Batmanghellidjh, Bidisha, Lydia Cacho, Shami Chakrabarti, Jane Czyzselska, Sayantani DasGupta, Laura Dockrill, Lynne Featherstone, Carleen Firmin, Lennie Goodings, Linda Grant, Nathalie Handal, Natalie Haynes, Sharon Haywood, Lindsey Hilsum. Isabel Hilton, Rachel Holmes, Siri Hustvedt, Jude Kelly, Liz Kelly, Helena Kennedy, Kathy Lette, Kate Mosse, Susie Orbach, Alison Bechdel, Laurie Penny, Lisa Power, Nina Power, Alissa Quart, Diana Quick, Josie Rourke, Bee Rowlatt, Elif Shafak, Muneeza Shamsie, Hanan Al-Shayk, Elaine Showalter, Gillian Slovo, Ahdaf Soueif, Martha Spurrier, Juliet Stevenson, Meera Syal, Shirley J. Thompson, Sandi Toksvig, Natasha Walter, Marilyn Waring, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Jeanette Winterson, Xinran, Alice Stride
"Update on werewolves" / Margaret Atwood -- 1. Naomi Alderman -- 2. Tahmima Anam -- 3. Lisa Appignanesi -- 4. Joan Bakewell -- 5. Camila Batmanghelidjh -- 6. Bidisha -- 7. Lydia Cacho -- 8. Shami Chakrabarti -- 9. Jane Czyzselka -- 10. Sayanti DasGupta -- Do I feel like a woman? / Laura Dockrill -- 11. Lynne Featherstone -- 12. Carlene Firmin -- 13. Lennie Goodings -- 14. Linda Grant -- 15. Nathalie Handal -- 17. Sharon Haywood -- 18. Lindsey Hilsum -- 19. Isabel Hilton -- 20. Rachel Holmes -- 21. Siri Hustveldt -- 22. Jude Kelly -- 23. Liz Kelly -- 24. Helena Kennedy QC -- 25. Kathy Lette -- 26. Kate Mosse -- 27. Susie Orbach, Alison Bechdel -- 28. Laurie Penny -- 29. Lisa Power -- 30. Nina Power -- 31. Alissa Quart -- 32. Diana Quick -- 33. Josie Bourke -- 34. Bee Rowlatt -- 35. Elif Shafak -- 36. Muneeza Shamsie -- 37. Hana Al-Shayk -- 38. Elaine Showalter -- 39. Gillian Slovo -- 40. Ahdaf Soueif -- 41. Martha Spurrier -- 42. Juliet Stevenson -- 43. Meera Syal -- 44. Shirley J. Thompson -- 45. Sandi Toksvig -- 46. Natasha Walter -- 47. Marilyn Waring -- 48. Timberlake Wertenbaker -- 49. Jeanette Winterson -- 50. Xīnrán -- Extract from the trial of Pussy Riot -- Alice Stride -- Contributors

The antidote to the idea that being a woman is all about submitting to desire. There are many more shades than that and here are fifty women to explore them.
Fifty years after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink?
In this volume, fifty women young and old - writers, politicians, actors, scientists, mothers - reflect on the shades that inspired them and what being woman means to them today.
Contributors include: Tahmima Anam, Joan Bakewell, Bidisha, Lydia Cacho, Nina Power, Shami Chakrabarti, Lennie Goodings, Linda Grant, Natalie Haynes, Siri Hustvedt, Jude Kelly, Kathy Lette, Kate Mosse, Bee Rowlatt, Elif Shafak, Ahdaf Soueif, Shirley Thompson, Natasha Walter, Jeanette Winterson - alongside the three editors.

To mark Virago's 40th birthday, the publisher has produced this collection of personal responses to the question, "What is feminism and what does it mean to you?" The 50-plus brief accounts, from successful and often celebrated women - selected to be multi-cultural, varied in class, age and sexual orientation (albeit mainly London-based) - all address the question with that familiar feminist mantra, "The personal is the political". They draw powerful lessons from exploitation and marginalisation, as well as violence towards women in families, workplaces and the public realms of law and politics, not to mention the spheres of theatre, fiction and pornography

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