Difficult Women

I "Difficult Women" fortæller Helen Lewis om 11 af historiens sejeste kvindelige helte, som udfordrede kvindesynet og skabte afgørende forandringer i verdenshistorien. De egenrådige, oprørske, barske og ”besværlige” kvinder, som ændrede verdenshistorien, har altid ikke fået den plads i vores historiefortælling, som de fortjener. Det råder Helen Lewis heldigvis bod på med "Difficult Women", hvor hun har samlet en række underholdende, chokerende og inspirerende fortællinger om historiens kvindelige helte, som nægtede at indordne sig samfundets rigide kvindesyn, og i stedet insisterede på deres ret og kæmpede for, hvad de troede på. I bogen hører vi om de modige strejkende kvinder i Sarik, og de bombekastende suffragetter samt en andre række inspirerende feministiske forbilleder fra historien.

I "Difficult Women" fortæller Helen Lewis om 11 af historiens sejeste kvindelige helte, som udfordrede kvindesynet og skabte afgørende forandringer i verdenshistorien. De egenrådige, oprørske, barske og ”besværlige” kvinder, som ændrede verdenshistorien, har altid ikke fået den plads i vores historiefortælling, som de fortjener. Det råder Helen Lewis heldigvis bod på med "Difficult Women", hvor hun har samlet en række underholdende, chokerende og inspirerende fortællinger om historiens kvindelige helte, som nægtede at indordne sig samfundets rigide kvindesyn, og i stedet insisterede på deres ret og kæmpede for, hvad de troede på. I bogen hører vi om de modige strejkende kvinder i Sarik, og de bombekastende suffragetter samt en andre række inspirerende feministiske forbilleder fra historien.

'Phenomenally powerful and beautifully written' the Guardian The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind. From a girls' fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America. 'Gay brings the powerful voice that flows through her work as a novelist and cultural critic to the 21 short stories in her first collection . . . Gay's "difficult women" are unforgettable' BBC.com 'Gay's signature dry wit and piercing psychological depth make every story mermerisingly unusual and simply unforgettable' Harper's Bazaar

'Phenomenally powerful and beautifully written' the Guardian The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind. From a girls' fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America. 'Gay brings the powerful voice that flows through her work as a novelist and cultural critic to the 21 short stories in her first collection . . . Gay's "difficult women" are unforgettable' BBC.com 'Gay's signature dry wit and piercing psychological depth make every story mermerisingly unusual and simply unforgettable' Harper's Bazaar