Bitch Doctrine - Essays for Dissenting Adults

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'A blast, in all senses' Financial Times Includes a new preface and extra essays Smart and provocative, this collection of Laurie Penny's writing establishes her as one of the most urgent and vibrant feminist voices of our time. From the shock of Donald Trump's election and the victories of the far right, to online harassment and the transgender rights movement, these darkly humorous observations provoke challenging conversations about the definitive social issues of today. Featuring a new preface and nine new revelatory, revolutionary essays, Bitch Doctrine will give readers tools for change from one of today's boldest commentators.

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Bitch Doctrine by Laurie Penny, one of the most accomplished and acerbic of the new, young journalists emerging from the protest movements of the 2010s, takes you to the front trench of the gender war and keeps you there longer than anyone should really stay Paul Mason, Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Laurie Penny, Penny Laurie
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781408881583
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-8158-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Prose: non-fiction, Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Reportage & collected journalism, Gender studies: women, Biography and non-fiction prose, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Reportage, journalism or collected columns