The Female Thing: Dirt, envy, sex, vulnerability

From the author of the acclaimed Against Love comes a pointed, audacious, and witty examination of the state of the female psyche in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century.

Women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement, between playing an injured party and claiming independence. Rather than blaming the usual suspects--men, the media--Kipnis takes a hard look at culprits closer to home, namely women themselves. Kipnis serves up the gory details of the mutual displeasure between men and women in painfully hilarious detail.

Is anatomy destiny after all? An ambitious and original reassessment of feminism and women's ambivalence about it, The Female Thing breathes provocative new life into that age-old question.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 10/09/2007
ISBN: 9780307275776
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.55d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 11/04/2007 pg. 36