num_pages: 324
description: The antidote to the idea that being a woman is all about submitting to desire. There are many more shades than that and here are fifty women to explore them. Fifty years after the publication of The Feminine Mystique have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink?In this volume fifty women young and old - writers politicians actors scientists mothers - reflect on the shades that inspired them and what being woman means to them today.Contributors include: Tahmima Anam Joan Bakewell Bidisha Lydia Cacho Nina Power Shami Chakrabarti Lennie Goodings Linda Grant Natalie Haynes Siri Hustvedt Jude Kelly Kathy Lette Kate Mosse Bee Rowlatt Elif Shafak Ahdaf Soueif Shirley Thompson Natasha Walter Jeanette Winterson - alongside the three editors.
language: English
title: Fifty Shades of Feminism
publisher: Virago