num_pages: 239
description: A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski the archetypal multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time.Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress an engaged political progressive a formidable entrepreneur a global social media phenomenon and now a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our cultures commodification of women is the subject of this book.My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism sexuality and power of men's treatment of women and women's rationalizations for accepting that treatment. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowskis life while investigating the cultures fetishization of girls and female beauty its obsession with and contempt for womens sexuality the perverse dynamics of the fashion and film industries and the gray area between consent and abuse.Nuanced fierce and incisive My Body marks the debut of a writer brimming with courage and intelligence.
language: English
title: My Body
publisher: Metropolitan Books