Seal Press (ca) Pretty bitches: on being called crazy, angry, bossy, frumpy, feisty, and all the other words that are used to undermine women, hardcover/lizzie skurnick

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Description These empowering essays from leading women writers examine the power of the gendered language that is used to diminish women -- and imagine a more liberated world.

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 .