Shrill

Notes from a Loud Woman

Author: Lindy West
ISBN: 9780316348409

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny. Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea. With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how

Publisher: Hachette Books
Publish Date: 2016-05-17

Subjects: Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Humor / Form / Essays, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs

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