Bitch in Praise of Difficulty - Hardcover

Wurtzel, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385484003 ISBN 13: 9780385484008

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1998

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Explores the history of famous and infamous manipulative women, describing the motivations for and consequences of their behavior

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Elizabeth Wurtzel graduated from Harvard College, where she received the 1986 <i>Rolling Stone</i> College Journalism Award.  She was a music critic for <i>The New Yorker</i> and <i>New York,</i> and her articles have appeared in numerous magazines.  She is the author of the bestselling <i>Prozac Nation,</i> and she currently resides in New York City.

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r understands the desire to be bad than Elizabeth Wurtzel.<br><br><i>Bitch</i> is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at women who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural critique of contemporary gender relations. Beginning with Delilah, the first woman to supposedly bring a great man down (latter-day Delilahs include Yoko Ono, Pam Smart, Bess Myerson), Wurtzel finds many biblical counterparts to the men and women in today's headlines.<br><br>In five brilliant extended essays, she links the lives of women as demanding and disparate as Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Margaux Hemingway, and Nicole Brown Simpson. Wurtzel gives voice to those women whose lives have been misunderstood, who have been dismissed for their beauty, their madness, their youth.<br><br>She finds in the story of Amy Fisher the tragic plight of all Lolitas, our thirst for their brief and intense flame.&

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0385484003
• ISBN 13: 9780385484008
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 434
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