It's Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me

On Femininity and Fame

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Beschreibung

*A Book of the Year in the Telegraph and Dazed*<br><br>'I love Philippa Snow's writing, truly and deeply' Lena Dunham<br>'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity ... a joy to read, fizzing with intelligence' Megan Nolan, Telegraph<br><br>'Wildly entertaining' Dazed<br><br>'Snow's prose is beautiful, white-hot and breathless, like a sports car speeding through the canyon' Observer<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>How does an icon become an icon? How did Anna Nicole Smith model herself on Marilyn Monroe? What connects Lindsay Lohan with Elizabeth Taylor? How is self-made beauty Pamela Anderson like trans bond girl Caroline 'Tula' Cossey?<br><br>In a series of interconnected essays about pairs of famous women, award-nominated essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars and lays bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity - from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era. Full of the fascinating, entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous celebrities, dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish, flamboyant prose, Philippa Snow's first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780349017716

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

222 x 144 x 29 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Little, Brown Book Group