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Nasty Women

By: Laura Jones - editor, Heather McDaid - editor
Narrated by: Angela Ness, Hannah Norris, Sirena Riley, Gemma Whelan
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Publisher's Summary

With intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's more important than ever for women to share their experiences. We must hold the truth to account in the midst of sensationalism and international political turmoil. Nasty Women is a collection of essays, interviews and accounts on what it is to be a woman in the 21st century.

People, politics, pressure, punk. Keep telling your stories. 369 percent funded on Kickstarter.

From working-class experience to sexual assault, being an immigrant, divides in Trump's America, Brexit, pregnancy, contraception, Repeal the Eighth, identity, family, finding a voice, punk, role models, fetishisation, power - this timely book covers a vast range of being a woman today.

The contributors are Alice Tarbuck, Becca Inglis, Belle Owen, Chitra Ramaswamy, Christina Neuwirth, Claire L. Heuchan, Elise Hines, Jen McGregor, Joelle Owusu, Jona Kottler, Kaite Welsh, Katie Muriel, Kristy Diaz, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! (in conversation with Sasha de Buyl-Pisco), Laura Lam, Laura Waddell, Mel Reeve, Nadine Aisha Jassat, Ren Aldridge of Petrol Girls, Rowan C. Clarke, Sim Bajwa and Zeba Talkhani.

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Critic Reviews

"An essential window into many of the hazard-strewn worlds younger women are living in right now." (Margaret Atwood)
"Nasty Women Is the Intersectional Essay Collection Feminists Need." (The Huffington Post)

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