num_pages: 352
description: Lacing cultural criticism Victorian literature and storytelling together TOO MUCH spills with intellect with sparkling prose and with the brainy arguments of Vorona Cote who posits that women are all in some way or another still susceptible to being called too much. (Esm Weijun Wang)A weeping woman is a monster. So too is a fat woman a horny woman a woman shrieking with laughter. Women who are one or more of these things have heard or perhaps simply intuited that we are repugnantly excessive that we have taken illicit liberties to feel or fuck or eat with abandon. After bellowing like a barn animal in orgasm hoovering a plate of mashed potatoes or spraying out spit in the heat of expostulation we've flinched-ugh that was so gross. I am so gross. On rare occasions we might revel in our excess--belting out anthems with our friends over karaoke perhaps--but in the company of less sympathetic souls our uncertainty always returns. A woman who is Too Much is a woman who reacts to the world with ardent intensity is a woman familiar to lashes of shame and disapproval from within as well as without.Written in the tradition of Shrill Dead Girls Sex Object and other frank books about the female gaze TOO MUCH encourages women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses-emotional physical and spiritual. Rachel Vorona Cote braids cultural criticism theory and storytelling together in her exploration of how culture grinds away our bodies souls and sexualities forcing us into smaller lives than we desire. An erstwhile Victorian scholar she sees many parallels between that era's fixation on women's hysterical behavior and our modern policing of the same; in the space of her writing you're as likely to encounter Jane Eyre and Lizzie Bennet as you are Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey.This book will tell the story of how women from then and now have learned to draw power from their reservoirs of feeling all that makes us Too Much.
language: English
title: Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
publisher: Grand Central Publishing