The Last Straight Woman
On Desiring Men
$52.61
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2026
Summary
A fiercely intelligent, funny, and much-needed reality check on the state of heterosexual women.
The Last Straight Woman is a call to set aside the baggage of what female heterosexuality evokes, in favour of a definition of what it actually entails: women liking men. No more, no less. That a woman is straight implies nothing about how conventional or submissive she is. It does not mean she wants to be accommodating to men generally.
Using that simple definition as its…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780771013027 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0771013027 |
| Author: | Phoebe Maltz Bovy |
| Publisher: | McClelland & Stewart Inc. |
| Imprint: | Signal |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 366g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 217mm x 149mm |
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“An affectionate tribute to women’s unrequited desire… . An ode to the everywoman.”
—Wall Street Journal
About The Author
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
PHOEBE MALTZ BOVY is a cultural critic in Toronto, and the author of The Perils of “Privilege” (2017). She is a regular columnist for The Globe and Mail, a senior editor at The Canadian Jewish News, and a co-host (with Kat Rosenfield) of the Feminine Chaos podcast. Her newsletter, Close-reading the Reruns, relates contemporary North American issues to 90s British sitcoms. She has written for The Atlantic, The Forward, and The New Republic, among many other publications. Phoebe has a Ph.D. in French from New York University.
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