The Bitchographies

Author : Vivienne Vuitton
Publisher : DartFrog Plus
ISBN 13 : 9781953910448
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bitchographies written by Vivienne Vuitton and published by DartFrog Plus. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a step into the world of Vivienne Vuitton. She, along with her friends and acquaintances-all newly single-have a lot to say these days. Tired of following life's ever so complicated script of relationships dos and don'ts, corporate etiquette, and everything in between, Vivienne bares it all in relatable and hilariously unfiltered vignettes. Nothing is off-limits, from dating disasters, divorces, botched Botox, calculating colleagues, terrible bosses, fake friends, and so much more! Please make no mistake-this book isn't intended to change the world or win a Pulitzer. Hell, it isn't even politically correct! So, buckle up for a sassy journey into petty indifferences and quirky insights. The Bitchographies is a reminder that it's alright to vent and even bitch on occasion, use your outside voice, be the most fabulous YOU that you can be, and unapologetically live your label.

Author : Elizabeth Wurtzel
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030782988X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bitch written by Elizabeth Wurtzel and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling Prozac Nation comes one of the most entertaining feminist manifestos ever written. 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. Bitch 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. She finds in the story of Amy Fisher the tragic plight of all Lolitas, our thirst for their brief and intense flame. She connects Hemingway's tragic suicide to those of Sylvia Plath, Edie Sedgwick, and Marilyn Monroe, women whose beauty was an end, ultimately, in itself. Wurtzel, writing about the wife/mistress dichotomy, explains how some women are anointed as wife material, while others are relegated to the role of mistress. She takes to task the double standard imposed on women, the cultural insistence on goodness and society's complete obsession with badness: what's a girl to do? Let's face it, if women were any real threat to male power, "Gennifer Flowers would be sitting behind the desk of the Oval Office," writes Wurtzel, "and Bill Clinton would be a lounge singer in the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock." Bitch tells a tale both celebratory and cautionary as Wurtzel catalogs some of the most infamous women in history, defending their outsize desires, describing their exquisite loneliness, championing their take-no-prisoners approach to life and to love. Whether writing about Courtney Love, Sally Hemings, Bathsheba, Kimba Wood, Sharon Stone, Princess Di--or waxing eloquent on the hideous success of The Rules, the evil that is The Bridges of Madison County, the twisted logic of You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again--Wurtzel is back with a bitchography that cuts to the core. In prose both blistering and brilliant, Bitch is a treatise on the nature of desperate sexual manipulation and a triumph of pussy power.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Author : Dee Dee Rivera
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 131296474X
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How A Dog-Girl Turned Rocker written by Dee Dee Rivera and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the years 2005 to 2007, Ms. Rivera kept an online blog at MSN. Most pronounced are her innermost thoughts about the men of the rock group INXS. Also included are her experiences with breeding chihuahuas, showing, evil show breeders, other INXS fans, and Rockstar: INXS. The story begins in April of 2005, when the diary began, and a short-lived battle she had with a contemptible teenager named Serena Weiner, who first came to Ms. Rivera in 2003, hoping to learn how to breed chihuahuas the right way, but yet could not handle the truth. Read about Dee's trip to LA to meet her favorite band, INXS with a woman named Danna Ballswinger. Read about her struggles to keep her kennel together. Read about how she conquered her nemesis, Catsredrum, and also how she got out of breeding after the loss of her favorite dog, Groucho. Also included within the entries are follow-up paragraphs that describe in further detail what she was thinking when she wrote each blog entry.

Author : Samantha Holland
Publisher : Berg Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781859738085
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Femininities written by Samantha Holland and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a world where the oppressive, over-feminized images of women from advertising, television, films, and magazines have re-armed themselves with army boots, body modifications, and flamboyant hair. Is this just another fairy tale, and if so, why cant it be a reality? In Alternative Femininities, Samantha Holland unpacks the myth of model womanhood and considers how a particular group of real women define and practise femininity. These women, who see themselves as 'alternative', modify and subvert popular images of femininity. The choices they make in clothing, appearance and body modifications enable them to construct a personal look that is intimately tied to self-identity. Getting the balance right between over-femininity and not being feminine enough is a frequently voiced concern. Holland also addresses head-on the much-neglected issue of how ageing impacts on notions of femininity. What do these women think about fashion, gender and appearance as they grow older and less visible in our media-dominated society? Do they choose to tone down or stay out there, and what motivates their choice? A revealing look at contemporary femininity, Alternative Femininities gives voice to a previously silent group of women who struggle to resist sexist gender stereotypes, yet age with style, individuality and creativity. By looking at how real women negotiate self-image in an increasingly appearance-conscious society, Holland has provided a much-needed corrective to theoretical accounts of gender and femininity lacking in real data.

Author : Elizabeth Wurtzel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743226003
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More, Now, Again written by Elizabeth Wurtzel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary acclaim. A cultural phenomenon by age twenty-six, she had fame, money, respect—everything she had always wanted except that one, true thing: happiness. For all of her professional success, Wurtzel felt like a failure. She had lost friends and lovers, every magazine job she'd held, and way too much weight. She couldn't write, and her second book was past due. But when her doctor prescribed Ritalin to help her focus-and boost the effects of her antidepressants—Wurtzel was spared. The Ritalin worked. And worked. The pills became her sugar...the sweetness in the days that have none. Soon she began grinding up the Ritalin and snorting it. Then came the cocaine, then more Ritalin, then more cocaine. Then I need more. I always need more. For all of my life I have needed more... More, Now, Again is the brutally honest, often painful account of Wurtzel's descent into drug addiction. It is also a survival story: How Wurtzel managed to break free of her relationship with Ritalin and learned to love life, and herself, is at the heart of this ultimately uplifting memoir that no reader will soon forget.

Author : Astrid Henry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253217134
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not My Mother's Sister written by Astrid Henry and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebellious generations and the emergence of new feminisms.

Author : Wyndham D. Miles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the National Library of Medicine written by Wyndham D. Miles and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Wurtzel
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307417387
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret of Life written by Elizabeth Wurtzel and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though she might not always follow her own advice, Elizabeth Wurtzel knows certain things to be true: Doing copious amounts of drugs leads nowhere you want to be; trying to be friends with your ex is always a bad idea; if you can’t afford to hire a mover, you can’t afford to move; and always doing the best you can is always good enough. Here are Wurtzel’s succinct and clever rules for living your best life. Fulfillment is within everyone’s reach. Grasping it takes enjoying your mistakes, being strong, and having opinions. Today’s woman should: • Be Gorgeous. Make the absolute most of what you’ve got. Believe that you are gorgeous, and you will be. It’s the only trick that really works. • Embrace Fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others. • Use All Available Resources. Let the M.D.s and the Ph.D.s help you solve your problems so that you don’t become everyone else’s problem. • Never Clear the Table at a Dinner Party Unless the Men Get Up to Help First. Cleanup should not be gendered. Change the world, one dinner table at a time. Hold a sit-in. One of the fiercest, funniest, and best-known essayists of her generation, Elizabeth Wurtzel infuses this modest gem of a rule book with a sharp wit and a real candor.

Author : Elizabeth Wurtzel
Publisher : AtRandom
ISBN 13 : 0679647112
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Sanity written by Elizabeth Wurtzel and published by AtRandom. This book was released on 2001-01-23 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Wurtzel is back, and this time she's armed with advice for the modern woman. She's found the secret of life, and it's within everyone's reach. It's about enjoying your mistakes. It's about being strong. It's about eating dessert. It's about having opinions. It's about adoring feminism. It's about embracing fanaticism. It's also about saying your prayers, not overpacking, and making your boyfriend do the dishes.. Some of her words of wisdom: - Think Productively: It's not that you have to see it to believe it; on the contrary, you have to believe it to see it. - Be Gorgeous: I myself believe that I am about ten times prettier than I actually am. By dint of sheer will power, I have managed to convince many people of this. - Enjoy Your Single Years: Do not think that the whole point of being single is being married; men don't think this way, and neither should you. In Radical Sanity, these lessons, and many more, are delivered with the sharp wit and candor we've come to expect -- and love -- from Elizabeth Wurtzel.