More Than a Woman
Written by Caitlin Moran
Narrated by Caitlin Moran
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About this audiobook
The author of the international bestseller How to Be a Woman returns with another “hilarious neo-feminist manifesto” (NPR) in which she reflects on parenting, middle-age, marriage, existential crises—and, of course, feminism.
A decade ago, Caitlin Moran burst onto the scene with her instant bestseller, How to Be a Woman, a hilarious and resonant take on feminism, the patriarchy, and all things womanhood. Moran’s seminal book followed her from her terrible 13th birthday through adolescence, the workplace, strip-clubs, love, and beyond—and is considered the inaugural work of the irreverent confessional feminist memoir genre that continues to occupy a major place in the cultural landscape.
Since that publication, it’s been a glorious ten years for young women: Barack Obama loves Fleabag, and Dior make “FEMINIST” t-shirts. However, middle-aged women still have some nagging, unanswered questions: Can feminists have Botox? Why isn’t there such a thing as “Mum Bod”? Why do hangovers suddenly hurt so much? Is the camel-toe the new erogenous zone? Why do all your clothes suddenly hate you? Has feminism gone too far? Will your To Do List ever end? And WHO’S LOOKING AFTER THE CHILDREN?
As timely as it is hysterically funny, this memoir/manifesto will have readers laughing out loud, blinking back tears, and redefining their views on feminism and the patriarchy. More Than a Woman is a brutally honest, scathingly funny, and absolutely necessary take on the life of the modern woman—and one that only Caitlin Moran can provide.
Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran’s debut book, How to Be a Woman, was an instant New York Times bestseller, with more than one million copies distributed worldwide. Her first novel, How to Build a Girl, received widespread acclaim, and she adapted it into a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein and Emma Thompson. As a twice-weekly columnist at The Times of London, Moran has won Columnist of the Year seven times. She lives in London.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Funny and so many good and must hear truths. Read it and share it and start the womens union of Ms. Moran's vision.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hitherto I've avoided reading any books by Caitlin Moran. It's not because I don't think they'll be any good - I enjoy her column every Saturday in The Times magazine and most weeks envy her linguistic cleverness and fierce, witty intelligence. No, it's just because she's always come across as a bit annoying. Brilliant, but in that precocious child self-satisfied way. A grown up who never managed to mentally evolve beyond her student days of grungy clothes and getting naked when she gets drunk.However, if Moran was standing in front of me now I'd look her in the eye and apologise. Well, partly apologise, for I do think she was like the above for a long time, but if this book is to believed she's finally grown up (extreme eyeliner excepted).As the prime target audience for this book (i.e. a middle-aged woman and mother), this book made me laugh out loud at times but it also touched me really quite deeply in places. For Moran exposes with brutal honesty what it's like to be a middle-aged woman in current times, a world where we spend years utterly exhausted from the juggling of jobs and housework and child rearing and parental caring and realise we need to be 'more than a woman'. We need to be several women.Your previous problems were all problems with yourself. Young woman problems. But when you enter middle age, you'll know you're middle-aged, because all your problems are... other people's problems.I kept coming back to that paragraph, as it so neatly sums up what makes this stage in life tough.Whilst parts of the book are a passionate polemic against the various injustices that women continue to fight against (safe streets, equal pay, etc.), this book is more than a clever feminist manifesto. Yes, Moran is passionate about fighting women's corner, but she's also pretty much up for fighting just about everyone's corner and trying to make the world just a teeny bit better to live in. In one chapter she rails about the issues modern men are dealing with and how expectations on how men should 'be' sadly often leaves them with no one to talk to when the going gets tough. In another deeply sad chapter she talks about dealing with her teenage daughter who has developed a serious eating disorder and made several attempts on her life, and how difficult it is when normal motherly nurturing urges not only cannot bring her around but moreover often makes things worse. Yet interspersed with rallying cries for change and insightful commentaries on the world around us are hilarious witticisms and one-liners that had me chortling away to myself.Perhaps one of the most refreshing things about Moran is that she's that rare breed of someone who is utterly content in her own skin, neck wattle and all, and that self-contentment makes for what is ultimately a rallying cry of hope and possibility rather than bitterness and reproach.4.5 stars - honest, insightful, hilarious. All hail being a middle-aged woman.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I lost interest a little bit towards the end, but for the most part this was funny and true. I would have bought it for the chapter on working parenting alone. I want to buy a copy of this for my daughter and underline this paragraph:"... if she wants children and a job, a woman's life is only as good as the man or woman she marries. That's the biggest unspoken truth I know. All too often, women marry their glass ceilings".
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5DNF at 31%.So sometimes she's funny for sure; however, I just don't connect with her humor. It's rooted in a very white cisgender middle-class experience with those same class assumptions as well as a marriage experience with gender roles that simply don't align with my life. I personally can promise you that there is AT LEAST one woman out there who does not have a life plan for recliners and fucking bowls. She's a good narrator though.