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Everyday sexism
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- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Extremely powerful' FINANCIAL TIMES'Game-changing' COSMOPOLITAN'Admirable' INDEPENDENTAfter a series of escalating sexist incidents, Laura Bates started the Everyday Sexism Project, inviting women to write in with their experiences. The response was astounding. Stories poured in from all around the world and the project quickly became one of the biggest social media success stories of the internet. The stories ranges from being harassed and wolf-whistled at on the street, to discrimination in the workplace and serious sexual assault, revealing just how normalised sexism had become. Often shocking, sometimes amusing and always poignant, Everyday Sexism is a protest against inequality and a manifesto for change. Welcome to the fourth wave of feminism.'If Caitlin Moran's How To Be A Woman is the fun-filled manual for female survival in the 21st century, everyday sexism is its more politicised sister'Independent on Sunday'A pioneering analysis of modern day misogyny' Telegraph**From the author of The New Age of Sexism and Men Who Hate Women**
- About The Author
- Laura Bates studied English at Cambridge University and went on to be a freelance journalist. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman, Red Magazine and Grazia among others. She is also contributor at Women Under Siege, a New-York based organisation working to combat the use of sexual violence as a tool of war in conflict zones worldwide. She is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781471149207
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., (23 April 2015)
- Number of Pages
- 384
- Weight
- 460 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 130 x 23 mm
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