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The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability
by Kipnis, Laura
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375424172
- ISBN 13
- 9780375424175
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Pantheon, 2006-10-16. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. A nice hardcover with a crisp dust jacket, a tight binding and an unmarked text. From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours, tracking number and delivery Confirmation.
Synopsis
In the female psyche nowadays, "contradictions speckle the landscape, like ingrown hairs after a bad bikini wax." So writes Laura Kipnis, author of the widely acclaimed polemic Against Love. With "the gleeful viperish wit of Dorothy Parker" (Slate), Kipnis now offers a fresh and provocative assessment of the female condition in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century. For every advance toward sexual equality on the part of women in recent years, she argues, some new impediment just "seems" to appear. Ironically, feminism ran up against an unanticipated opponent: the inner woman. An ambitious and original reassessment of feminism and women's ambivalence about it, The Female Thing brims with bracing and funny social observations informed by psychological acuity. For all the upbeat "You go, girl" slogans, women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement, between playing the injured party and claiming independence. Feminism is bedeviled by the same impasses and contradictions it seeks to rectify. But rather than blaming the usual suspects--men, the media--Kipnis takes a hard look at culprits closer to home, namely women themselves and their complicity in upholding male privilege, even as they resent men deeply for it. Which makes relations between the sexes rather thorny at the moment, and Kipnis serves up the gory details of the mutual displeasure between men and women in painfully hilarious detail. In the tradition of The Feminine Mystique and The Female Eunuch, this is a pathbreaking work. As audacious as it is historically and socially grounded, The Female Thing explores age-old quandaries: the war between the sexes, what women "really" want, and to what extent anatomy is destiny after all.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Stock & Trade
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EC2A-1212b
- Title
- The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability
- Author
- Kipnis, Laura
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375424172
- ISBN 13
- 9780375424175
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006-10-16
- Size
- 8x5x0
- LCCN
- 2006043794
- X weight
- 12 oz
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Stock & Trade is owned and operated by Michael Lamb of Portland Oregon. After 25 years in the retail book trade. Mr. Lamb is consulting on the collection of rare, used and out print titles by facilitating the procurement of large quantity of books for the enjoyment and decoration of homes, private clubs, hotels and businesses. Stock & Trade also handles the liquidation of libraries from individual estates, businesses and private collections. All books sold are in stated condition and are 100 percent returnable.
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