{"product_id":"king-kong-theory-9780374539290","title":"King Kong Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOut of print in the U.S. for far too long, writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes's autobiographical feminist manifesto is back--in an improved English translation--\"blistering with anger, and so precisely phrased that it feels an injustice to summarize it\" (Nadja Spiegelman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the old, the bull dykes, the frigid, the unfucked, the unfuckable, the hysterics, the freaks, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh. And if I'm starting here it's because I want to be crystal clear: I'm not here to make excuses, I'm not here to bitch. I wouldn't swap places with anyone because being Virginie Despentes seems to me a more interesting gig than anything else out there.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePowerful, provocative, and personal, \u003ci\u003eKing Kong Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is a candid account of how the author of \u003ci\u003eBaise-Moi\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVernon Subutex\u003c\/i\u003e came to be Virginie Despentes. Drawing from personal experience, Despentes shatters received ideas about rape and prostitution, and explodes common attitudes about sex and gender. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn autobiography, a call for revolt, a manifesto for a new punk feminism, \u003ci\u003eKing Kong Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is Despentes's most beloved and reviled work, and is here made available again in a brilliant new translation by Frank Wynne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fsg Originals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/11\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374539290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160","brand":"Virginie Despentes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39715226288309,"sku":"9780374539290","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b46bf7b7-0387-453b-9140-f134428ec2c1.jpg?v=1618292456","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/king-kong-theory-9780374539290","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}