Description
Book SynopsisThe feminist survival manual you wish you had read as a teenager. It is written by Feminist Webs, a cross-generational youth project for girls and young women based in Manchester, UK. Many of their resources are not geographically specific.
Trade ReviewThe Exciting Life of Being a Woman is part of an urgent and wholly necessary movement which reflects millions of women’s hopes, fears, jokes, passions, questions, activism and energy in a way which is accessible, enjoyable, stylish and intelligent.
-- Bidisha
This book is full of do’s and great ideas to build young women’s confidence and challenge, individually and together, the pressures that too often undermine them.
-- Susie Orbach
Once I picked this up, I couldn’t put it down. It answers, for me, an unspoken question – about where we are as women today and about how we want our future to be.
-- Laura, Feminist Webs participant
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Beginning with us 4-24
Chapter 1: Resilience 25-38
Chapter 2: Her-story 39-57
Chapter 3: Banged up and banged up 58-79
Chapter 4: Riot… 80-98
Chapter 5: ...Don’t ‘diet’? 99-115
Chapter 6: Freedom 116-123
Chapter 7: ‘Politically correct’ or just plain correct? 124-144
Chapter 8: Peace sister 145-160
Chapter 9: The art part 161-172
Chapter 10: It’s a big world in here 173-185
Chapter 11: Commonality and difference 186-208
Chapter 12: Young, gifted and girls 209-240
Resources 241
Contributors 241-247
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