{"product_id":"bitch-in-praise-of-difficult-women-paperback","title":"Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Wurtzel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eProzac Nation\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBitch\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBitch\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Rules, \u003c\/i\u003e the evil that is \u003ci\u003eThe Bridges of Madison County, \u003c\/i\u003e the twisted logic of \u003ci\u003eYou'll Never Make Love in This Town Again\u003c\/i\u003e--Wurtzel is back with a bitchography that cuts to the core. In prose both blistering and brilliant, \u003ci\u003eBitch\u003c\/i\u003e is a treatise on the nature of desperate sexual manipulation and a triumph of pussy power.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Wurtzel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the bestselling books \u003ci\u003eProzac Nation, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBitch, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMore, Now, Again\u003c\/i\u003e. A Harvard graduate whose work has appeared in such publications as \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford American, \u003c\/i\u003e she lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 8 x 5.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755686494496,"sku":"9780385484015","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d7f84e9fd79871fa3420f2f59506c3dd.webp?v=1780065880","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bitch-in-praise-of-difficult-women-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}