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Backwards in high heels: the impossible art of being female
Sarah Vine
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Description for Backwards in high heels: the impossible art of being female
Hardcover. Clean copy with some wear and discolouring
The world is a fraught place for the contemporary female. Working mothers are still expected to make their children's costumes for the school play, despite the fact that home economics was abolished in the Seventies; we're told it's not looks but brains that count, and yet if we dare to leave the house looking vaguely our age we're made to feel like failures; women's magazines run earnest articles about the evils of size 00 culture, only to feature models with hips like 10-year-old boys a few pages later; we pay the same level of taxation as men, and yet ... Read more
The world is a fraught place for the contemporary female. Working mothers are still expected to make their children's costumes for the school play, despite the fact that home economics was abolished in the Seventies; we're told it's not looks but brains that count, and yet if we dare to leave the house looking vaguely our age we're made to feel like failures; women's magazines run earnest articles about the evils of size 00 culture, only to feature models with hips like 10-year-old boys a few pages later; we pay the same level of taxation as men, and yet ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007273836
SKU
KOC0028079
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-7
About Sarah Vine
Sarah Vine is a writer and editor at The Times. After a four-year stint as Arts Editor, she took up full-time writing in 2003. She remains active in the arts world, and is a trustee of the Jerwood Foundation. Prior to joining The Times, Sarah worked as Features Editor on Tatler, and before that she was Deputy Editor of the ... Read more
Reviews for Backwards in high heels: the impossible art of being female
'A witty and penetrating examination of the fantasies women create that imprison them. Marvellously liberating.' Dorothy Rowe