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Bitch : In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel First Printing
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- First Edition
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- Modernism
- Era
- 1990s
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- ISBN
- 9780385484008
- Book Title
- Bitch : in Praise of Difficult Women
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Genre
- Psychology, Social Science
- Topic
- Feminism & Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, General, Women's Studies
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 26.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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No one better understands the desire to be bad than Elizabeth Wurtzel. Bitchis a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at women who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural critique of contemporary gender relations. Beginning with Delilah, the first woman to supposedly bring a great man down (latter-day Delilahs include Yoko Ono, Pam Smart, Bess Myerson), Wurtzel finds many biblical counterparts to the men and women in today's headlines. In five brilliant extended essays, she links the lives of women as demanding and disparate as Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Margaux Hemingway, and Nicole Brown Simpson. Wurtzel gives voice to those women whose lives have been misunderstood, who have been dismissed for their beauty, their madness, their youth. She finds in the story of Amy Fisher the tragic plight of all Lolitas, our thirst for their brief and intense flame. She connects Hemingway's tragic suicide to those of Sylvia Plath, Edie Sedgwick, and Marilyn Monroe, women whose beauty was an end, ultimately, in itself. Wurtzel, writing about the wife/mistress dichotomy, explains how some women are anointed as wife material, while others are relegated to the role of mistress. She takes to task the double standard imposed on women, the cultural insistence on goodness and society's complete obsession with badness: what's a girl to do? Let's face it, if women were any real threat to male power, "Gennifer Flowers would be sitting behind the desk of the Oval Office," writes Wurtzel, "and Bill Clinton would be a lounge singer in the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock." Bitchtells a tale both celebratory and cautionary as Wurtzel catalogs some of the most infamous women in history, defending their outsize desires, describing their exquisite loneliness, championing their take-no-prisoners approach to life and to love. Whether writing about Courtney Love, Sally Hemings, Bathsheba, Kimba Wood, Sharon Stone, Princess Di--or waxing eloquent on the hideous success ofThe Rules,the evil that isThe Bridges of Madison County,the twisted logic ofYou'll Never Make Love in This Town Again--Wurtzel is back with a bitchography that cuts to the core. In prose both blistering and brilliant,Bitchis a treatise on the nature of desperate sexual manipulation and a triumph of pussy power.
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Publisher
Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0385484003
ISBN-13
9780385484008
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Bitch : in Praise of Difficult Women
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, General, Women's Studies
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Psychology, Social Science
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
26.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hq1123.W87 1998
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-052106
Dewey Decimal
920.7/2
Dewey Edition
21
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