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Title: Too Much
Condition: New
Subtitle: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
Author: Rachel Vorona Cote
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 075158052X
EAN: 9780751580525
ISBN: 9780751580525
Publisher: Sphere
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships, History
Release Date: 23/04/2020
Description:

Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, Too Much explores how culture corsets women's bodies, souls, and sexualities - and how we might finally undo the strings.

Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex Object and other frank books about the female gaze, Too Much encourages women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses - emotional, physical, and spiritual.

Rachel Vorona Cote braids cultural criticism, theory, and storytelling together in her exploration of how culture grinds away our bodies, souls, and sexualities, forcing us into smaller lives than we desire. An erstwhile Victorian scholar, she sees many parallels between that era's fixation on women's 'hysterical' behavior and our modern policing of the same; in the space of her writing, you're as likely to encounter Jane Eyre and Lizzie Bennet as you are Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey. This book will tell the story of how women, from then and now, have learned to draw power from their reservoirs of feeling, all that makes us 'too much'.


Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 240mm
Item Length: 162mm
Item Width: 32mm
Item Weight: 560g
Release Year: 2020

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