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The feminist memoir that made everyone laugh — then think. Caitlin Moran’s How to Be a Woman (2011) is the book that rebooted feminism for a new generation: part memoir, part manifesto, entirely hilarious. From Brazilians to Beyoncé, from weddings to high heels, Moran takes on everything with wit and radical honesty.
Moran — Britain’s sharpest columnist — writes like your funniest friend: the abortions, the fame, the feminism, all examined with disarming candor. Beneath the jokes is a serious argument: that feminism is for everyone, that it’s fun, and that the personal is still political.
The book that made feminism cool again: brilliant, bawdy, and big-hearted. For women, men, and everyone in between — laugh first, think after. Moran’s rallying cry still resonates: feminism with jokes, heart, and zero patience for nonsense. The rare manifesto you’ll actually finish — laughing. Moran’s wit is a weapon and her heart is huge: the feminist classic of our time. Read it, laugh, then go change the world.
Caitlin Moran became a columnist for The Times at eighteen — and a feminist icon with this book. How to Be a Woman is her bestselling, laugh-out-loud memoir-manifesto: part autobiography, part rallying cry, and completely unlike any feminist book you’ve read before.
From her chaotic Wolverhampton childhood in a crowded council house to her career in London journalism, Moran tackles the big questions of modern womanhood with brutal honesty and wicked humour: body image, bras, dieting, work, motherhood, abortion, and why she still loves high heels. Her central question — ‘Are you a feminist? Yes? Then you’re sorted’ — became a defining slogan of 2010s feminism.
Originally published in 2011, the book helped spark a new wave of popular feminism and went on to win the Galaxy National Book Awards Book of the Year. Fierce, funny, and unexpectedly moving, How to Be a Woman remains essential reading: whether you’re a lifelong feminist or picking up your first book on the subject, Moran’s warm, furious, and very human voice makes it irresistible.
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