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Hags : the demonisation of middle-aged women / Victoria Smith.

By: Publisher: London : Fleet, 2024Description: 360 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780349726984
Subject(s): Summary: "What is about about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage—almost everyone? In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme —care work, beauty, violence, political organization, sex—and explores it in relation to middle-aged women's beliefs, bodies, histories and choices. Smith traces the attitudes she describes through history, and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so very now. The result is a book that is absorbing, insightful, witty and bang on time." -- dust jacket.
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Book, Standard Loan (4 weeks) Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Preston Library Main Shelves FACT 305.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available LTP00000602

"What is about about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage—almost everyone? In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme —care work, beauty, violence, political organization, sex—and explores it in relation to middle-aged women's beliefs, bodies, histories and choices. Smith traces the attitudes she describes through history, and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so very now. The result is a book that is absorbing, insightful, witty and bang on time." -- dust jacket.