num_pages: 234
description: From celebrity gossip expert and BuzzFeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen comes an accessible analytical look at how female celebrities are pushing boundaries of what it means to be an acceptable woman.You know the type: the woman who won't shut up who's too brazen too opinionated--too much. It's not that she's an outcast (she might even be your friend or your wife or your mother) so much as she's a social variable. Sometimes she's the life of the party; others she's the center of gossip. She's the unruly woman and she's one of the most provocative powerful forms of womanhood today. There have been unruly women for as long as there have been boundaries of what constitutes acceptable feminine behavior but there's evidence that she's on the rise--more visible and less easily dismissed--than ever before. In Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud Anne Helen Petersen uses the lens of unruliness to explore the ascension of eleven contemporary powerhouses: Serena Williams Melissa McCarthy Abbi Jacobson Ilana Glazer Nicki Minaj Kim Kardashian Hillary Clinton Caitlyn Jenner Jennifer Weiner and Lena Dunham. Petersen explores why the public loves to love (and hate) these controversial figures each of whom has been conceived as too something: too queer too strong too honest too old too pregnant too shrill too much. With its brisk incisive analysis Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud will be a conversation-starting book on what makes and breaks celebrity today.
language: English
title: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
publisher: Plume