Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

Author(s): Laurie Penny

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'This is not a fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police our dreams.' Clear-eyed, witty and irreverent, Laurie Penny is as ruthless in her dissection of modern feminism and class politics as she is in discussing her own experiences in journalism, activism and underground culture. This is a book about poverty and prejudice, online dating and eating disorders, riots in the streets and lies on the television. The backlash is on against sexual freedom for men and women and social justice - and feminism needs to get braver. Penny speaks for a new feminism that takes no prisoners, a feminism that is about justice and equality, but also about freedom for all. It's about the freedom to be who we are, to love who we choose, to invent new gender roles, and to speak out fiercely against those who would deny us those rights. It is a book that gives the silenced a voice - a voice that speaks of unspeakable things.


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Britain's youngest and smartest activist and columnist gets to grips with the sexual counter-revolution and all it entails for women and for men

She slices her way through the bullshit - pointing out the misogyny that's all too often dismissed as "harmless fun". Aged 26, Penny is a member of the first generation to live the majority of their adult life online. What began as a refuge for a red-headed geek-girl has become her playground and battlefield. http://forbookssake.net on Cybersexism She writes powerfully and persuasively on the topic of online abuse and free expression on the internet. Penny is a necessary and salutatory voice. She writes with punch. She is growing harder and more focused in her fight. Mic Wright, Telegraph, on Cybersexism A worthwhile and provocative read Observer on Cybersexism Read @PennyRed's Cybersexism. I think every man (and woman) should. It's a pretty amazing piece of work Irvine Welsh on Cybersexism

Laurie Penny is a writer and journalist. She writes for Vice, the Guardian and many other publications, is a columnist and Contributing Editor at the New Statesman magazine and Editor-at-Large at cult New York literary project The New Inquiry. At the age of twenty-three she was the youngest person to be shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing for her blog 'Penny Red' which, like her first feminist book, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism, was a word-of-mouth hit. She has reported on radical politics, protest, digital culture and feminism from around the world, working with activists from the Occupy movement and the European youth uprisings. She has 75,000 followers on Twitter and in 2012 won the British Media Awards' 'Twitter Public Personality of the Year' prize, which she accepted in absentia with a speech about the ongoing harassment of women on social media. Laurie is a nerd, a nomad and an activist. She is twenty-six years old and lives in London. @PennyRed

General Fields

  • : 9781408824740
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 0.323
  • : May 2014
  • : 216mm X 135mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : August 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Laurie Penny
  • : Paperback
  • : Aug-14
  • : 305.4
  • : 288