Description: Shrill by Lindy West Paperback Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny. Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible -- like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you -- writer and humoristLindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea. With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss, and walk away laughing.
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Book Title: Shrill
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Books
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Women, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Personal Memoirs, Form / Essays
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Humor
Item Weight: 7.9 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Lindy West
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
