Cat Women - An Exploration of Feline Friendships and Lingering Superstitions

Explores the relationship between women and cats, and the folklore, suspicions and misogynistic persecution of cat-owning women. Features enlightening images from 1900 onwards.

About the author

Alice Maddicott is a writer and artist from Somerset, England. Her work has spanned poetry, writing installations, children's television scripts (The Large Family, The Clangers), travel and nature writing, including for Elsewhere Journal and the Waymaking anthology, as well as public art commissions such as The Car Boot Museum. For nearly two decades she has worked on creative education projects and run writing workshops with young people. She lives with two rescue cats, Tariel and Sindri, and Ptolemy the tortoise who she's had for 35 years.

Summary

A fascinating journey of discovery for independently minded cat lovers.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Maddicott
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781912836062
• ISBN: 978-1-912836-06-2
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Katzen als Haustiere, Memoiren, Berichte/Erinnerungen, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Soziale und ethische Themen, PETS / Cats / General, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, HISTORY / Social History, Memoirs, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, HISTORY / Women, PHOTOGRAPHY / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, HISTORY / Essays, Holidays & seasonal interest, Feminism & feminist theory, Photographs: collections, Cats as pets, Feminism and feminist theory, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs