Backwards in high heels
Subtitle: the impossible art of being female
By: by Tania Kindersley & Sara Vine
Contributors: Vine, Sarah
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780007273836; 9780007357369
Subjects: Miscellanea; Women
Description: The world is a fraught place for the contemporary female. Working mothers are still expected to make their children's costumes for the school play, despite the fact that home economics was abolished in the Seventies; we're told it's not looks but brains that count, and yet if we dare to leave the house looking vaguely our age we're made to feel like failures; women's magazines run earnest articles about the evils of size 00 culture, only to feature models with hips like 10-year-old boys a few pages later; we pay the same level of taxation as men, and yet on average we earn 25% less. So, this book - a book for women who never got around to perfecting the art of domestic divinity but would quite like to be able to cook supper for six without having a nervous breakdown; who never quite mastered Cosmo's 101 ways to please your man, but don't want the embarrassment, not to say inconvenience, of him running off with a 19-year-old Russian supermodel.
Table of contents: title: 1. Love; title: 2. Food; title: 3. Career; title: 4. Men; title: 5. Health; title: 6. Politics and the new orthodoxy; title: 7. Philosophy of life, self-esteem and the whole damn thing; title: 8. Dressing and shopping; title: 9. Motherhood and family; title: 10. Money; title: 11. Grief; title: 12. Age; title: 13. Beauty; title: 14. Sex; title: 15. The practical chapter.