Normal Women: From the Number One Bestselling Author Comes 900 Years of Women Making History
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Normal Women: From the Number One Bestselling Author Comes 900 Years of Women Making History
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Voices of the past can be heard through careful analysis of the fragments that do exist, and reading a document ‘against the grain’ of its author’s intention often reveals crucial details. Sex workers are people first, and they don't deserve the dehumanizing narratives that so often surround them. If you’re tired of British history written by men, about men, then Philippa Gregory has the book for you.
Did women really do nothing to shape England’s culture and traditions in nine centuries of turmoil, plague, famine, religious reform and the rise of empire and industry? Brilliant though this book is, you'll spend a long time reading it if, like me, you read these things from cover to cover. A beautifully woven history of women which details the origins of today's inequalities such as, how women's labour moved from valued and paid to being invisible and free and why we have been forced into two genders. Any "unbelievable" plot points mentioned by reviewers seem to me to be entirely purposeful and emphasize (in the most hilarious way) the absurdity of modern American culture.
Like Mona Awad’s Bunny or Otessa Moshfegh’s Eileen, Motherthing is a fabulous, frightening story built from fine, fine prose. It’s hugely entertaining for the most part, full of barbs hurled at ‘momfluencers’ and their curated Instagram accounts, forums in which women tell each other off, go into graphic detail about birth and compete over who’s bringing up baby best.
Some women choose to herald motherdom and wifedom through social media, others grow into society's idea of a "bad mother" as they try to reclaim their own identity, and others, still, lean in to the mess of it all - and in this case, join the Temple and perform "healing" sex work. So far, so good, although somewhat depressing, but the plot woven around Renata’s disappearance peters out in rather implausible manner. I got pretty far into Motherthing, nearly two-thirds in fact, and rather enjoyed the comic horror approach to the mother-in-law’s suicide but didn’t think the tone rang true.
Women in translation aside, I’m determined not to be swayed by lots of new fiction this year following some disappointments last year, but I do find your reviews very useful for my subscription readers!
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