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How to Be a Woman
- Narrated by: Caitlin Moran
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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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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- L
- 09-10-12
Very funny
This had me laughing out loud, and recommending this book to all my friends. I think I shall be buying it as a christmas present for some!
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- M.Slattery
- 26-04-16
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I just loves this wonderful simple clear wildly funny and smart look at womanhood. it empowered me and made me feel really happy and excited.
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- Claire
- 10-04-19
Hilariously funny!!!
A raw, blunt and hilariously funny (snorts included) feminist manifesto!! Caitlin hits each issue every woman spot on!!
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- Luke
- 01-04-19
Caitlin never fails to please
I really enjoyed this but not as much as How To Build a Girl and How To Be Famous. I felt this book went over some old ground but saying that, a very good listen and a great insight into Caitlin's thoughts.
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- Megan Rice
- 29-03-18
Absolutely brilliant
Loved every minute of it. Really interesting, funny, clever and sometimes even sad and uncomfortable. Some tough and poignant lessons discussed. A recommended listen to everyone.
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- Andrea
- 17-10-19
Final third got a bit tiresome
I thought I would love this, especially as it is narrated by Caitlin herself, but it started to grate after a while. I think it is best listened to one chapter at a time with a break in between, whereas I like a half-day listen.
I applaud much - but not all - of Caitlin's views and her style of writing. Except for the lists, damn they're annoying! And the chapter tearing apart Katie Price didn't sit comfortably with me due to the vitriol with which Caitlin's views were delivered.
Overall I'm glad I listened but I probably won't listen again.
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- Kindle Customer
- 09-03-20
Just brilliant
Made me laugh and cry and shout and scream! LOVE this book - inspiring! AWESOME
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- LOU LLOYD
- 01-05-20
How to be a woman
One of only a handful of books that has really taught me something - I AM A FEMINIST !
Caitlin Moran is without doubt
A very beautiful woman ......
Inside & out.
Incredible incite into women .
Thankyou
Just off too get her next book now....
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- Kerry
- 04-01-20
Love, love, love this.
How it has taken 10 years for this to drop into my life I don’t know. So grateful to the friend who recommended it. Honest, open, funny (actually almost wet myself laughing whilst listening on headphones in the supermarket!!), beautiful and basically wonderful. *stands on chair* DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN TO THIS RIGHT NOW! 💕
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- Mrs. N. La Beet
- 08-04-13
If you read only one book about feminism...
I've given this five stars in spite of the fact that I have some reservations.
The five stars first: Every girl and woman should read this. She has some really clever and novel insights into feminism and I absolutely love it. She doesn't tell us to be men, she tells us to be human. She doesn't put down men - in fact NOT AT ALL - she tells ud to stand up and be their equals now that we don't face the death penalty or anything like that for doing so.
My "aberdabeis" (as they say in German) are 1) there's too much columnist and too little "this is a whole book" in the writing. I think the book could have profited greatly if Ms. Moran had cut out 2/3 of her funny little lines that do so well in a Times column, but in my opinion become tiresome in a book. My other aberdabei is specifically to the audio version, which is read by Ms. Moran herself. That means that she shouts in my ear when SHE WRITES IN CAPITALS. I don't really like that and find that it's rarely good when the authors read their own books. Rather odd.
This, however, should NOT deter you from reading it or listening to it. It really is the best I've read on feminism in a long, long time.
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