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More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

by Caitlin Moran

Harper Perennial ·2020 ·252 pages ·Memoir
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A Good Morning America September Book Pick The author of the international bestseller How to Be a Woman returns with another "hilarious neo-feminist manifesto" (NPR) in which she reflects on parenting, middle-age, marriage, existential crises—and, of course, feminism. A decade ago, Caitlin Moran burst onto the scene with her instant bestseller, How to Be a Woman, a hilarious and resonant take on feminism, the patriarchy, and all things womanhood. Moran's seminal book followed her from her terrible 13th birthday through adolescence, the workplace, strip-clubs, love, and beyond—and is considered the inaugural work of the irreverent confessional feminist memoir genre that continues to occupy a major place in the cultural landscape. Since that publication, it's been a glorious ten years for young women: Barack Obama loves Fleabag, and Dior make "FEMINIST" t-shirts. However, middle-aged women still have some nagging, unanswered questions: Can feminists have Botox? Why isn't there such a thing as "Mum Bod"? Why do hangovers suddenly hurt so much? Is the camel-toe the new erogenous zone? Why do all your clothes suddenly hate you? Has feminism gone too far? Will your To Do List ever end? And WHO'S LOOKING AFTER THE CHILDREN? As timely as it is hysterically funny, this memoir/manifesto will have readers laughing out loud, blinking back tears, and redefining their views on feminism and the patriarchy. More Than a Woman is a brutally honest, scathingly funny, and absolutely necessary take on the life of the modern woman—and one that only Caitlin Moran can provide.


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"But it will also make you think."

Christina Patterson· The Times (UK) Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

"The chapters on parenting are the ones that rubble you."

Holly Williams· The Guardian Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

"it's in her descriptions of parenting that Moran is at her rawest and most vulnerable, as she emphasizes how hard it is to realize we can't save others (we can hardly keep ourselves afloat, after all) while also revealing that it's enough to realize we need to make changes when (not if) we fail ..."

Emily Bowles· Library Journal Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

"Threaded through the narrative is Moran's commonsense feminism, underpinned by the principle that if men aren't having to put up with this crap, then neither should we ..."

Fiona Sturges· The Guardian Read review ↗ Near the Top

"[Her] honesty is at its fiercest in the sections about Nancy."

Sarah Ditum· The Times (UK) Read review ↗ Near the Top

"British author Moran...takes on the fraught topic of being a modern woman in this realistic, sometimes funny, and occasionally heartbreaking essay collection."

Publishers Weekly Read review ↗ Near the Top

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