Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women - Goodreads
Mar 2, 2023 · Hags asks the question why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme - care work, beauty, violence, political organization, sex - and explores it in relation to middle-aged women's beliefs, bodies and choices.
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women - amazon.com
Aug 27, 2024 · Hags asks the question why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme - care work, beauty, violence, political organization, sex - and explores it in relation to middle-aged women's beliefs, bodies and choices.
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Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023* : …
HAGS is a book that had to be written and who better to do it - and do it magnificently - than Victoria Smith. A must-read for women to understand why we are still so undervalued in society, why it's so hard to make and maintain progress in feminism.
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- Author: Victoria Smith
Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*
Mar 2, 2023 · The greatest joy of Hags is its lively erudition . . . This eloquent, clever and devastating book describes the last remaining acceptable prejudice, one that is now even posited as progress: the loathing of older women― Janice Turner, The Times My polemic of the year . . .
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- Author: Victoria Smith
Hags by Victoria Smith - GREAT BRITISH BOOK CLUB
In Hags, Victoria Smith looks into the causes of this prejudice. Each section focuses on a different topic — appearances, care work, violence, politics, etc. — analyzing them alongside the experiences and beliefs of middle-aged women.
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women - Barnes & Noble
Feb 13, 2024 · In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme - care work, beauty, violence, political organization, sex - and explores it in relation to middle-aged women's beliefs, bodies, histories and choices.
Hags by Victoria Smith - Waterstones
Jan 11, 2024 · A brilliantly witty, engaging and insightful book; a righteous polemic which examines and questions why so much hatred is directed towards middle-aged women - and, crucially, what this means for women today . . . a punchy, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable read - Eleanor Fleming, Scotsman
Hags - By Victoria Smith (paperback) - Target
A brilliantly witty, engaging and insightful book; a righteous polemic which examines and questions why so much hatred is directed towards middle-aged women - and, crucially, what this means for women today . . . a punchy, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable read--Eleanor Fleming, Scotsman
Hags by Victoria Smith - Hachette UK
Mar 2, 2023 · Victoria Smith traces the attitudes she describes back to the same anxieties about older women that drove Early Modern witch hunts, and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so powerful today. The demonisation of hags has never felt more now.
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women - amazon.com
In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme - care work, beauty, violence, political organization, sex - and explores it in relation to middle-aged women's beliefs, bodies, histories and choices.
- 4.4/5(269)