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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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- emily
- 18-08-23
Bit Dated now
Many of these ideas and conversations stand up and are still incredibly funny. But I’m sure Moran herself would be a little embarrassed by the casual transphobia, racism and fetishisation of gay men that runs throughout.
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-07-23
Enjoyable listen
I like Caitlin Moran & this listen didn’t disappoint. A bit ranty but funny with it.
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- lorna
- 08-06-23
My new hero
I loved the book and the narration. I’m planning on reading her next book straight away. The book is funny, empowering, vulnerable and thought provoking.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-05-23
Okay
Interesting content and funny in places but I struggled with the tangents and rants that often took place.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-04-23
Heartwarming and hilarious
Thanks again Caitlin Moran! I desperately needed cheering up and distracting, and I knew just who to come to. Feels like having a laugh with your outrageous, mouthy and insightful best friend in her mum’s kitchen, like the good old days. My husband laughed all the way through too.
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- Jay Dub
- 23-10-22
Loved it!
Went through a whole journey of emotion during this book from belly laughing to welling up with emotion. Such a good companion on my way back home to Liverpool - thank you!
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- C K Lee
- 30-06-22
Funny yet intelligent
This book articulates perfectly what I feel my friends and I have been ranting about for years. In a hilarious yet incredibly truthful and accurate way.
Covering topics from masturbation and pubic hair, to marriage and sexism in the workplace, this book is a must read for men and woman alike.
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- Emma Blackman
- 11-05-22
Really Inspiring
i wish I had known of this book when it first came out a decade ago. I am going to read Caitlin's recent book now. I adored this. so so funny I snorted out loud loads and I don't laugh at just anything. Brilliant and witty woman!!!!
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- Suzanne Bushby
- 07-04-22
Brilliantly written and read!
Really enjoyed this and she is honest and motivating without trying. Oh and so very funny at times. Brilliant!
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- Anonymous User
- 06-01-22
funny!
a very funny audiobook, I reccomend this Book, i was laughing out loudly, very sharp
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