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Book SynopsisWith intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's vital for women to share their experiences. Nasty Women is a collection of essays, interviews and accounts on what it is to be a woman in the 21st century. Keep telling your stories.
Trade Review'An essential window into many of the hazard-strewn worlds younger women are living in right now.' - Margaret Atwood (Twitter). 'An important if not essential collection of essays, this book is almost impossible to put down. It will make you proud to call yourself a Nasty Woman.' - Louise O'Neill, author of Asking For It; 'An essential, incredible multitudinous riot of voices... required reading.' - Nikseh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant; 'Nasty Women Is The Intersectional Essay Collection Feminists Need' - Huffington Post; 'The most discussed upcoming publication of the year' - The Independent; 'Sizzling hot, radical, and a great solace.' - Chitra Ramaswamy; 'A bloody masterpiece. I'm shook!' - Joelle Owusu; 'It's powerful. This book is a treat like no other.' - Zeba Talkhani
Table of ContentsIndependence Day - Katie Muriel // Black Feminism Online: Claiming Digital Space - Claire L. Heuchan // Lament: Living With the Consequences of Contraception - Jen McGregor // These Shadows, These Ghosts - Laura Lam // The Nastiness of Survival - Mel Reeve // Against Stereotypes: Working Class Girls and Working Class Art - Laura Waddell // Go Home - Sim Bajwa // Love in a Time of Melancholia - Becca Inglis // Choices - Rowan C. Clarke // 'Touch Me Again and I Will Fucking Kill You': Cultural Resistance to Gendered Violence in the Punk Rock Community - Ren Aldridge // On Naming - Nadine Aisha Jassat // Laura Jane Grace: Naming, Speaking Out and the Subversion of Art - In conversation with Sasha De Buyl-Pisco // Adventures of a Half-Black Yank in America - Elise Hines // Foraging and Feminism: Hedge-Witchcraft in the 21st Century - Alice Tarbuck // Fat in Every Language - Jonatha Kottler // After Expecting - Chitra Ramaswamy // Hard Dumplings for Visitors - Christina Neuwirth // Liberation or Segregation: Rejecting Environmental and Attitudinal Barriers to Accessibility - Belle Owen // A Good Muslim - Zeba Talkhani // The Dark Girl's Enlightenment - Joelle A. Owusu
