Girl Up

‘This book is fabulous. It is inclusive and empowering. It is funny and frank and, as actor Emma Watson writes in the preface, “not for the faint-hearted”. It is the kind of sex and life education you wished you had at your at your disposal when you were 14’ * Irish Times *
‘Girl Up will be the first book on feminism many young women will read’ * Guardian *
‘Girl Up is something between a self-help book and a bracing love letter to today’s teenage girls … I wish I’d had Girl Up when I was growing up. I could have used such a no-nonsense survival guide’ * Sunday Times *
‘It’s hardly headline news that feminism can be funny. But, heavens, is it refreshing to see it done as well as it is [in this book]’ * Telegraph *
‘For any woman who is sick of being told how to act, how to dress, or how to ward off unwanted advances, this book could be for you’ * Independent *
‘Feminist writer Laura Bates returns with another hard-hitting but hilarious book which exposes the truth surrounding pressures on body image, false representations in the media and lots of issues very relevant to girls today. This no-nonsense guide to being a girl in 2016 and is one all teen girls should read’ * Red *
‘If you have a daughter or a niece or a younger sister or a god-daughter, buy it for them now … the book is an absolute must for girls navigating our hyper-sexualised, deeply sexist culture’ * Pool *
’[Girl Up] tackles all the propaganda that women get bamboozled with from childhood. From the myth of the “ballbreaker” in the office to the “dangers” of short skirts, Bates is funny, piercingly astute and will have you furious and politicized over the impact social media, pornography and advertising have on our bodies’ * Stylist *
‘Essential reading for young women and girls, Girl Up is set to become a key guiding text for the next generation like The Beauty Myth and The Feminine Mystique have for preceding generations’ * Morning Star Online *
‘Bates takes a myth-busting approach to body image, food, sex and advertising, and is particularly good at boiling down feminist language into a snappy, everyday vernacular without diluting its power’ * Metro *

Laura Bates studied English at Cambridge University and went on to be a freelance journalist. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman, Red Magazine and Grazia, among others.

She is also a contributor at Women Under Siege, an organization working to combat the use of sexual violence as a tool of war in conflict zones worldwide.

She is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project.

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