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  title info:
    title: Pretty bitches
    sub title: on being called crazy, angry, bossy, frumpy, feisty, and all the other words that are used to undermine women
  name:
    name part: Skurnick, Lizzie
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Traister, Rebecca
    role:
      role term: writer of introduction.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless," "Sassy," "Ambitious," "Aggressive." What subtle digs and sneaky implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons, warnings, praise and blame, bearing an outsized influence on women's lives, to say nothing of our moods. No one knows this better than Lizzie Skurnick, writer of the New York Times' column "That Should be A Word" and a veritable queen of cultural coinage. And in Pretty Bitches, Skurnick has rounded up a group of powerhouse women writers to take on the hidden meanings of these words, and how they can limit our worlds, or liberate them. From Laura Lipmann and Meg Wolizer to Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Traister, each writer uses her word as a vehicle for memoir, cultural commentary, critique or all three. Spanning the street, the bedroom, the voting booth and the workplace, these simple words have huge stories behind them, stories it's time to examine, reimagine and change.
  table of contents: Too / Adaora Udoji -- Professional / Afua Hirsch -- Effortless / Amy S. Choi -- Princess / Carina Chocano -- Ugly / Dagmara Domińczyk -- Shrill / Dahalia Lithwick -- Lucky / Glynnic Macnicol -- Mom / Irina Reyn -- Mature / Jillian Medoff -- Ambitious / Julianna Baggott -- Victim / Kate Harding -- Disciplined / Laura Lippman -- Yellow-bone / Lihle Z. Mtshali -- Zaftig / Lizzie Skurnick -- Crazy / Mary Pols -- Small / Beth Bich Minh Nguyen -- Funny / Meg Wolitzer -- Sweet / Monique Truong -- Nurturing / Raquel D'Apice -- Pretty / Stephanie Burt -- Intimidating / Tanzila Ahmed -- Good / Tova Miris -- Tomboy / Winter Miller -- Aloof / Elizabeth Spiers -- Exotic / Emily Sanders Hopkins -- Fat / Jennifer Weiner -- Feisty / Katha Pollitt -- Appendix: words you shouldn't call women "A definitive glossary."
  note: edited by Lizzie Skurnick ; with an introduction by Rebecca Traister.
  subject:
    topic: Sex discrimination against women
  subject:
    topic: Hate speech
  subject:
    topic: Self-esteem
  subject:
    topic: Feminist theory
  subject:
    topic: Right-wing extremists
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
  classification: HN49.R33 P73 2020
  classification: 303.48/4
  identifier: 9781580059190
  identifier: 1580059198
  identifier: 9781580059206
  identifier: 2019038650
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190909
    record change date: 20200729072819.0
    record identifier: in00004123340