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How to Be a Woman
- Narrated by: Caitlin Moran
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
1913 - Suffragette throws herself under the King's horse. 1969 - Feminists storm Miss World. Now - Caitlin Moran rewrites The Female Eunuch from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting smaller. There's never been a better time to be a woman: We have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain....
Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should you get Botox? Do men secretly hate us? What should you call your vagina? Why does your bra hurt? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin Moran answers these questions and more in "How To Be A Woman" - following her from her terrible 13th birthday ("I am 13 stone, have no friends, and boys throw gravel at me when they see me") through adolescence, the workplace, strip clubs, love, fat, abortion, TopShop, motherhood and beyond.
Caitlin Moran had literally no friends in 1990, and so had plenty of time to write her first novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of fifteen. At sixteen she joined music weekly Melody Maker and at eighteen briefly presented the pop show Naked City on Channel 4. Following this precocious start she then put in eighteen solid years as a columnist on the Times - both as a TV critic and also in the most-read part of the paper, the satirical celebrity column "Celebrity Watch".
The eldest of eight children, home-educated in a council house in Wolverhampton, Caitlin read lots of books about feminism - mainly in an attempt to be able to prove to her brother, Eddie, that she was scientifically better than him. Caitlin isn't really her name. She was christened "Catherine". But she saw 'Caitlin' in a Jilly Cooper novel when she was 13 and thought it looked exciting. That's why she pronounces it incorrectly: "Catlin". It causes trouble for everyone.
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- kamila
- 23-12-12
A must read
one of the funniest books I've had a pleasure to read in a long time!
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- Emily
- 25-06-19
funny and informative
good listen. interesting, funny and full of interesting perspectives. open your mind and give it a go
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-04-18
brilliant
I loved it, couldn't stop listening. it's funny, poignant, based in reality and clever. And very amusing!
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- Claire Green
- 23-07-18
Every woman should listen to this book
Caitlin Moran is the effing and blinding mad aunt I wish I had grown up with. The one to tell me to stop concentrating so hard on what I thought I should be, and instead flip them all the bird and do what makes me happy.
She also helped me understand what feminism means to me. My Mum uses "feminism" like a dirty word, because she thinks it's all man-bashing and bra-burning, when in reality it's more like man-humping (if you like that kind of thing) and bra-thanking.
So thank you Caitlin for making me laugh ugly like a snorty pig and supporting how proud I am to walk around with legs like a homeless womble
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- Holly Wittwer
- 02-09-20
Good read.
I enjoyed this book. There was a great many ideas that I felt I could relate to and were expressed well.
I do think that there are certain elements which, by Moran’s own admission, haven’t aged well but it’s still possible to get a lot out of the rest.
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- mish
- 21-08-21
it's good funny in parts
it's good funny in part , smetimes does rant on abit, but more than a women is alot better.
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- Julie Westmoreland
- 03-04-17
Brilliant
Brilliantly written, made me laugh out loud in parts. I couldn't put it down, I listened to it in one go.
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- Jo
- 18-03-17
fantastic
if you a female and grew up in the 80's and 90's i dont think you could fail to recognise yourself in Caitlins words. I do for sure
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- H J Mac
- 13-04-13
Marvellous, funny and thought provoking.
I really enjoyed this book. She lays everything bare, literally. I loved her stories of being a teenager, they were so funny and real. She was very lucky to have been bright and confident. I don't think a 16 year old could just go and get themselves a career as a writer these days. In fact a lot of this book really highlights how the world has changed in such a short time.
I especially like how she talks about porn and the effect it's having on young people, especially girls. Compared to the way we consumed porn when we were teenagers, i.e the odd racy scene in a paperback that we passed around at school or the odd chance to look at playboy or the like. Whereas today it's hard core on the mobile phones that gets watched at school. It's very scary and I do hope that more women and girls think about this stuff, and how feminism has really faced a backlash more and more these days.
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- Lizzie
- 21-08-15
Great to have the author read it.
Funny and entertaining. We'll worth downloading. I'd not read any of her books before but this was really enjoyable and I'd read another.
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