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How to Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran

Finish date: June 27, 2015

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Aug 28, 2020 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: feminism, audiobook, autobiography

I listed to this as an audiobook and thoroughly enjoyed the mixture of dramatisation alongside narration from Moran herself. Hearing some genuine Wolves accents definitely lent some additional authenticity to it.

I don't think the book taught me anything I didn't already know or feel about feminism, but that didn't matter as I thoroughly enjoyed Moran's retelling of a youthful discovery of feminism and how she threw herself into being a (very) young working woman fresh to London, looking for gend ...more

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Mar 07, 2015 Sarah rated it liked it

Shelves: non-fiction, memoir-and-bio, humor, music-and-musicians

I really really wanted to love this. I wanted to laugh out loud, learn things, and be moved. While parts were really interesting, I was neither moved nor humored. This is supposed to be a funny book about feminism, told in part through examples from the author's life. I really liked the biographical parts of this, but was left cold by her theories of feminism. I even agree with her about most of her dogma, but was also insanely grated by some of her assertions. I was unfamiliar with Moran before ...more

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Aug 23, 2013 Kathy Wheeler rated it really liked it

I enjoyed this. In some places it was a bit graphic for me as I easily embarrass, but still a good, funny book.

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Oct 05, 2012 Jill Wolfe rated it it was amazing

I LOVED this book -- and I'm buying it as a gift for all my girlfriends. In the same vein as Tina Fey's Bossypants, but even funnier, it's a sort of feminist manifesto paired with memoir. If you read nothing else this year, make sure you read How to Be a Woman. ...more

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