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Caitlin Moran’s debut—an instant runaway bestseller in the UK—puts a new face on feminism, cutting to the heart of issues with an irreverent, transcendent, and hilarious touch
“The U.K. version of Tina Fey’s Bossypants. . . . You will laugh out loud, wince, and—in my case—feel proud to be the same gender as the author.” —Emma Gilbey Keller, Vanity Fair
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- 25,000
- Subsidiary Rights: Audio: Harper Paperbacks; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: AP Watt Ltd.
- On Sale: 7/17/2012
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- pb 9780062124296 $15.99 ($17.99)
- 320 pages; 6 x 9
• Caitlin (pronounced “Catlin”) Moran, a major media personality in the UK, has won the British Press Association’s Columnist of The Year Award for 2010, and both the Critic of the Year Award and Interviewer of the Year Award in 2011.
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"There are lots of things to love about Caitlin Moran's How to Be a Woman..A glorious, timely stand against sexism so ingrained we barely even notice it. It is, in the dour language [Moran] militates so brilliantly against, a book that needed to be written."
- New York Times
"The UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one."
- Marie Claire
"Moran's frank wit is appealing."
- The New Yorker
"It is bracing in this season of losing [Nora] Ephron to discover a younger feminist writer who scrimmages with the patriarchy and drop kicks zingers with comic flair..A must-read for anyone curious to find out just how very funny a self-proclaimed 'strident feminist' can be."
- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
"A fresh, funny take on modern feminism that shines a light on issues facing every woman, lovingly boiled down to the basics with insight and humor."
- Today Show
"Scathingly funny..Moran makes us think about femininity and feminism, and whether you agree or not, she's fascinating."
- People (3 ½ stars)
"A hilarious neo-feminist manifesto..Moran reinvigorates women's lib with her personal and political polemic."
- NPR.org
"Caitlin Moran taught me more about being a woman than being a woman did. I'm pretty sure I had testicles before I read this book."
- Jenny Lawson, author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
"There is a good reason for [its success]: it is pretty phenomenal..[Moran] wrote the book in just 5 months..Chances are you'll read it in far less time than that, turning down the corners of extra-resonating pages to come back to later."
- Jenn Doll, The Atlantic Wire
"With her drunk-on-gin-with-my-lady-friends honesty and humor, Moran, a Times of London columnist, snips the man out of manifesto, spinning her message of radically sensible female empowerment."
- Vanity Fair.com
"Bravely and brilliantly weaves personal anecdotes and cutting insight into a book that is at once instructional, confessional, and a call for change..Moran shifts effortlessly between her own hilarious experiences and larger questions about women's place in the modern world."
- Interview Magazine
"As funny and careerist as Tina Fey's Bossypants, as divulging as Ayelet Waldman's Bad Mother and as earthy as Cheryl Strayed's Wild."
- Holloway McCandless, Shelf Awareness
"Ingeniously funny..In her brilliant, original voice, Moran successfully entertains and enlightens her audience with hard-won wisdom and wit..She doesn't politicize feminism; she humanizes it."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Caitlin Moran is so fabulous, so funny, so freshly feminist. I don't want to be like her-I want to be her. But if I can't, at least I can relish her book. You will, too."
- Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter
"Her arguments are hilarious and spot on..This isn't a self-help guide, and Moran's not really telling you how to be a woman. Instead, she's giving you permission to laugh: at ourselves, at her, and at anyone who think there's only one way to be a woman."
- Shannon Carlin, Bust Magazine
"How funny is Caitlin Moran's neo-feminist manifesto and memoir, How to Be a Woman? Don't read it with a full bladder..You could spend a whole book group session flagging favorite lines...There's some comfort in Moran's book coming out so soon after Nora Ephron's death."
- Heller McAlpin, Barnes & Noble Review
"A spirited memoir/manifesto..With equal amounts snarky brio and righteous anger..That such an important topic is couched in ribald humor makes reading about Moran's journey hilarious as well as provocative..Rapturously irreverent, this book should kick-start plenty of useful discussions."
- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Caitlin Moran is a feminist heroine for our times. I can't wait to give this book to my daughters."
- Zoë Heller, author of The Believers
"Caitlin Moran is the profane, witty and wonky best friend I wish I had. She's the feminist rock star we need right now; How to Be a Woman is an hilarious delight."
- Ayelet Waldman, author of Bad Mother
“Half memoir, half polemic, and entirely necessary.”
- Elle UK
“Moran’s is a rallying cry to a ‘broken windows’ or zero-tolerance philosophy of feminism, in which the whole point is to sweat the small stuff—‘OK! Magazine, £600 handbags, tiny pants, Brazilians, stupid hen nights or Katie Price’—in order, as she puts it, paraphrasing Rudy Giuliani, to stop squatters breaking in and taking over the whole building. To discuss it, laugh at it, treat it, above all, with as much common sense as it is possible to muster.”
- Aida Edemariam, The Guardian (UK)
"A genuinely original talent."
- Germaine Greer, The Times (London)
"A ballsy, noisy, warm romp; part deliciously honest memoir, part wise rant. [Moran's] aim is to nail the absurd polarity of women's lives in the early 21st century.. She skewers depilation and dieting, Botox and bra shopping, falling in love with the wrong man and giving birth. The voice in the book is irrepressibly, uniquely hers, the message is all-embracing. Yes, it's a riff on muffin tops and Topshop. But she also tackles the big stuff."
- Louis France, The Times Magazine (London)
"Half-memoir, half-polemic, and entirely necessary."
- Elle UK
"This brilliantly argued and urgently needed book-highly comic and deadly serious-is precisely what feminism has been waiting for."
- Frances Wilson, Times Literary Supplement (London)
"Engaging, brave, and consistently, cleverly, naughtily funny."
- Katy Guest, Independent (UK)
“Moran’s view is that being a woman in today’s society is too serious a business to be treated seriously. So, while she tackles some of the most pressing issues facing women today—abortion, ageing, sexism, and high heels—she does so with a Wodehousian command of language and many, many jokes about cystitis…. ‘Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be.’”
- Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times (London)
"Ebullient ranting from a genius columnist who is very much more scoffing about women's foibles-high heels, ostentatious bags, cosmetic surgery, Brazilians, Katie Price, grandiose weddings-than she is about men's failings. Funniest book of the year. "
- David Sexton, Evening Standard (UK)
"I was expecting to find some tension between the dual purposes of memoir and polemic in Moran's book, but in fact, every word of the memoir is loaded with political importance.. There is iconoclasm lurking under every one-liner."
- Zoe Williams, Guardian (UK)
"Totally brilliant."
- Independent on Sunday (UK)
"Like My Secret Garden as written by Lady Gaga.. [Moran is] a rockstar feminist.. This is what feminism needs right now."
- Guardian (UK)
"Hugely entertaining and exhilarating..Moran is very, very funny..A book with the power to amuse, inspire, and even enrage readers of any age and gender, but it should be compulsory reading for teenagers."
- Anne Carey, Irish Times
"A brilliant book."
- The Sun (UK)
"A desperately necessary feminist call to arms.. This book puts the fun back in feminism while tackling the issues that assault the modern woman.. Funny, really funny.. 'Women who, in a sexist world, pander to sexism to make their fortune are Vichy France with tits'.. I loved How To Be a Woman so much that, during the two days it took me to read, I couldn't bear to be parted from it' like a best friend you can't stop gossiping with. I even took it to the loo."
- Clare Heal, Sunday Express (UK)
"Anarchic, bonkers 21st-century women's lib with laughs."
- Red
"A new approach to feminism."
- TNT magazine
"Brilliant...tackles what it means to be a woman in the 21st century."
- Stylist magazine
"Utterly brilliant investigation of what it really means to be a woman right now. It's part memoir, part rant, as thought-provoking as it is hilarious."
- Grazia
"Her arguments are hilarious and spot on..This isn't a self-help guide, and Moran's not really telling you how to be a woman. Instead, she's giving you permission to laugh: at ourselves, at her, and at anyone who thinks there's only one way to be a woman."
- Shannon Carlin, Bust Magazine
"How funny is Caitlin Moran's neo-feminist manifesto and memoir, How to Be a Woman? Don't read it with a full bladder..Never mind discussion: you could spend a whole book group session flagging favorite lines...Like Tina Fey's recent memoir, Bossypants, which also takes on sexism with humor..There's some comfort in Moran's book coming out so soon after Nora Ephron's death. How to Be a Woman is a welcome successor to such witty classics of female frankness as Ephon's 'A Few Words About Breasts,' 'I Feel Bad About My Neck,' and 'On Maintenance.'.A Clarion call to soar unimpeded in feminist skies."
- Heller McAlpin, Barnes & Nobles Review
"Considering the bad rap feminists have gotten, as man-hating harpies with a surplus of body hair and lack of a sense of humor, it's not surprising no one is flashing her membership card..Caitlin Moran's British best-seller, How to Be a Woman, may help to change all that. With her drunk-on-gin-with-my-lady-friends honesty and humor, Moran, a Times of London columnist, snips the man out of manifesto, spinning her message of radically sensible female empowerment."
- Vanity Fair