How To Be A Woman
by Caitlin Moran
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88%
Critic Reviews: 15
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60%
Reader Ratings: 309
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Synopsis
A Paperback Original Caitlin Moran's debut-an instant runaway bestseller in the UK-puts a new face on feminism, cutting to the heart of issues with an irreverent, transcendent, and hilarious touch "The U.K. version of Tina Fey's Bossypants. . . . You will laugh out loud, wince, and-in my case-feel proud to be the same gender as the author." -Emma Gilbey Keller, Vanity Fair "Because for all that people have tried to abuse it and disown it, 'feminism' is... more
About Caitlin Moran
- All Critics: 15
- Positive: 14
- Negative: 1
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The New York Times | 26 Jul 2012
“How to Be a Woman” is a glorious, timely stand against sexism so ingrained we barely even notice it. It is, in the dour language she militates so brilliantly against, a book that needed to be written.
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Slate | 15 Jul 2012
Moran’s feminism is as much attitude as analysis. She is, in equal measure, intellectual, rebel and goofball
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The Guardian | 6 Mar 2012
...It is as a comic writer that Moran particularly excels; by which I mean that the jokes aren't gags sprinkled around to make up for the surrounding pieties, they are integral to the whole project.
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The Guardian | 25 Jun 2011
There are lines in it that will make you snort with laughter, situations so true to life that you will howl in recognition.
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Huffington Post | 8 Aug 2012
"How to Be a Woman" is high energy, hilarious, occasionally poignant and, in most cases, so true you want to shout, "YES!!!"
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The Independent | 3 Jul 2011
...engaging, brave and consistently, cleverly, naughtily funny, but actually it is important that we talk about this stuff.
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Stylist
...this might just be the funniest intelligent book ever written.
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The Humanist
Caitlin Moran has nobly forsworn getting drunk with pop-star interviewees, as columnist for The Times, long enough to produce this 300-page feminist tract disguised as an autobiography.
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Review (Barnes & Noble) | 16 Jul 2012
...although it's decidedly female-centric, open-minded men should enjoy the ribald humor and privileged view.
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Examiner | 13 Oct 2012
A good memoir is entertaining; a great memoir is entertaining and educational. Moran's How To Be a Woman is such a memoir.
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The Telegraph | 19 Jul 2011
How to Be a Woman is a hoot. A huge, provocative, hilarious and powerful hoot.
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BC Books | 1 Aug 2011
She's open to lots of possibilities - but seems unable to imagine a lot of other possible women's lives.
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New Statesman | 4 Jul 2011
...while How to Be a Woman might not have the anger or urgency of The Female Eunuch, it certainly has more jokes. And perhaps that's what modern feminism needs.
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She Knows | 31 Aug 2012
How to Be a Woman by New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Moran is a must-read for anyone who wants to have a lot of good, deep belly laughs while gaining some smart insights into being a woman.
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NPR | 19 Jul 2012
...Moran invests her consciousness-raising confessions with an all-too-rare working-class worldview.
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