num_pages: 320
description: Leading women writers examine the power of the words that are used to diminish women Words matter. They wound they inflate they define they demean. They have nuance and power. Effortless Sassy Ambitious Aggressive: What subtle digs and sneaky implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons warnings praise and blame bearing an outsized influence on women's lives -- to say nothing of our moods.No one knows this better than Lizzie Skurnick writer of the New York Times' column That Should be A Word and a veritable queen of cultural coinage. And in Pretty Bitches Skurnick has rounded up a group of powerhouse women writers to take on the hidden meanings of these words and how they can limit our worlds -- or liberate them. From Laura Lipmann and Meg Wolizer to Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Traister each writer uses her word as a vehicle for memoir cultural commentary critique or all three. Spanning the street the bedroom the voting booth and the workplace these simple words have huge stories behind them -- stories it's time to examine re-imagine and change.
language: English
title: Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women
publisher: Seal Press