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maddezmom

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Sun Jun 3, 2012, 07:23 PM Jun 2012

Caitlin Moran defends best-seller How To Be A Woman at Hay Festival [View all]

Best-selling feminist author Caitlin Moran has hit back at critics of her award-winning book, claiming she’d only written about things that most women can relate to.

Pregnancy, pornography, abortion, boyfriends and child-rearing are among the topics covered in How To Be A Woman, which has been dubbed, “The Female Eunuch As Written From A Bar Stool”.

“I chose stuff that would have happened to pretty much every woman,” the journalist and author told audiences at the Hay Festival.

And she pointed out that such typical subjects shouldn’t be brushed under the carpet.

more:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/showbiz/2012/06/03/caitlin-moran-defends-best-seller-how-to-be-a-woman-at-hay-festival-91466-31105651/

Has anyone read this book? Thoughts? I've just pre-ordered for my iPad.

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I haven't read it yet either Catherina Jun 2012 #1
lol obamanut2012 Jun 2012 #2
Another one to lol at Catherina Jun 2012 #3
I'll put it on the list! Starry Messenger Jun 2012 #4
thanks for the link maddezmom Jun 2012 #6
Here's another good one where she reads from the book Catherina Jun 2012 #7
LOL maddezmom Jun 2012 #10
Germaine Greer did a very nice review of the book Catherina Jun 2012 #5
I'm reading it now LadyHawkAZ Jun 2012 #8
More, more, more girlfriend! n/t Catherina Jun 2012 #9
I am 40% into the book LadyHawkAZ Jun 2012 #11
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