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Hags

The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

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Hags

Von: Victoria Smith
Gesprochen von: Victoria Smith
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 'Rich, complex and witty' ROSE GEORGE, SPECTATOR

'Devastating and clever' BEL MOONEY, DAILY MAIL

'Could not be more necessary' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER

What is about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone?

In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused.

In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme - care work, beauty, violence, political organization, sex - and explores it in relation to middle-aged women's beliefs, bodies, histories and choices. Smith traces the attitudes she describes through history, and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so very now. The result is a book that is absorbing, insightful, witty and bang on time.

Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards announced 21 November 2023. ©2023 Victoria Smith (P)2023 Hachette Audio UK Geschlechterforschung Sozialwissenschaften

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The book came to my attention in The Week magazine and being of "that" age, I thought why not have a go.
I must applaud the research and the content. It must have been hard to shorten everything into the size of one book. The subject is so broad and complex that, I think, it could have gone on and on. Having grown up in several different cultures and countries, I wondered how much of the primarily Brit "Hag" writing was applicable to other places in detail.
However, regardless of country, age and current times, this is a very somber and at times shocking realisation how little things have changed. It is sad that one cannot voice opinions without being demonised one way or another.
Not sure there is ever going to be a definitive answer or guidance how to change and improve it all.
I am recommending this book to everyone I know.
The only downside, profound apologies to the author, is that in audible the authors voice is not a "book reading" voice.....I feel bad for saying this, as it is hard to get an audio book read, but I struggled with the colour of the voice. I am thinking of getting a hardcopy to read again.

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