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Un libro para ellas
Un libro para ellas | Bridget Christie
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Bridget Christie es una humorista sin pelos en la lengua, clebre en el Reino Unido por sus monlogos teatrales, en los que denuncia el machismo que sigue imperando en la sociedad contempornea y reflexiona sobre la condicin femenina. Y, para que sus agudas reflexiones cargadas de sarcasmo quedasen negro sobre blanco, una editora sobre la que Christie se apresura a explicarnos que tambin ha publicado en ingls el Mein Kampf de Hitler (eso s, en edicin crtica y anotada) le pidi que escribiese todo eso que explica, parodia y condena sobre un escenario. El resultado es este libro, entre la evocacin de vivencias personales (por ejemplo, cmo un pedo la convirti en feminista: s, un pedo, han ledo bien) y el panfleto descacharrante (por ejemplo, los tpicos inacabables sobre las feministas: no practican sexo jams, todas son lesbianas, gordas y feas, todas nacieron en los sesenta y todas usan gafas y parecen la Velma de Scooby-Doo..., ah, y, por supuesto, todas se pasan el da quemando sujetadores). Pero hay ms, porque habla tambin de la mutilacin genital, de las escandalosas cifras de tocamientos no consentidos en los colegios britnicos y de la tambin escandalosa brecha salarial, de las campaas de lencera con mujeres normales, de la industria del sexo, de la dictadura del fsico, de las chicas enseando las tetas en el The Sun de Rupert Murdoch... Y habla tambin de mujeres: histricas como las Bront, Mary Wollstonecraft o las sufragistas, y actuales como Malala, la nia vctima de los talibanes por querer estudiar. Pero no se olvida de los hombres, histricos como el esteta decimonnico John Ruskin, que se desmay al ver el abundante vello pbico de su joven esposa la noche de bodas, o actuales como Nigel Farage bestia negra de la autora, Dan Brown o el piloto de carreras Stirling Moss, que considera que las mujeres no estn capacitadas para conducir tan rpido y, para demostrar su superioridad, un da se cay por el hueco del ascensor porque al abrir la puerta no se fij en que no estaba en la planta... cida, combativa, inteligente, provocadora, Christie sabe que hay cosas tan importantes que slo se pueden abordar con humor. Y su libro acaba siendo tambin una reivindicacin de cmo la comedia puede convertirse en un arma poltica, denunciar injusticias flagrantes y ayudar a cambiar actitudes.
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Ekkross
A Book for Her | Bridget Christie

“To quote Helen Lewis the journalist, ‘the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism‘.”

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Ekkross
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Yes to all this

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MinnieTimperley
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Like an extended standup routine (there is lots and lots to laugh at here), Bridget Christie lures you in during the first half of the book with some of the less insidious aspects of inequality as she argues the case for feminism and then hits the reader with the most seriously damaging aspect of patriarchal dominance.

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FreeReadAndWrite
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MY GOD I loved this book. Feminist, frank, funny. If you‘re going to bother, get the audiobook.
Note: I wouldn‘t recommend this if you don‘t already like her stand-up, as this is just an extended version of what she does on stage. Part memoir/part analysis/part observation, part hilarious/part sincere, part focused on ludicrous issues facing women/part focused on the worst issues.

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FreeReadAndWrite
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“The columnist says his only wish is that feminist activist groups & leftie rapporteurs would just stop whinging because British women are among the most privileged liberated women in the world. They can vote, they‘re well educated, they have control over their own assets & bladders. But we only have these rights bc loads of women whinged & moaned for them in the first place.”

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FreeReadAndWrite
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I‘m trying to learn how to Litsy! And for 2018 I‘ve just started the audiobook of Bridget Christie‘s Book For Her, which is basically, from what I can tell, about to be an 8 hour version of her comedy special. Feminist AND hilarious. My favorite combination!

readordierachel Ooh, this sounds good! 7y
FreeReadAndWrite @ReadOrDieRachel SO good. Her special is on Netflix if you haven‘t seen it - she does a 10 min bit about Bic for Her. 7y
readordierachel I haven't! I'll check it out. 7y
RaimeyGallant Welcome to Litsy! #LitsyWelcomeWagon Re the learning: Some of us put together Litsy tips to help new Littens navigate the site. It's the link in my bio on my page in case you're interested. :) 7y
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arlenefinnigan
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Really enjoyable read. I found the going-off-on-tangents narration irritating at first, but hearing her being both witty and passionate about issues like FGM and rape culture is great.

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arlenefinnigan
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Light reading needed after A Hope More Powerful Than The Sea.

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Harriet.m
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So excited to read

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Ammyharrison
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I keep snortlaughing out loud!

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