(Un)kind by Victoria Smith - ISBN: 9780349127149
Paperback
Kindness culture: How it controls women and betrays feminism.

(Un)kind

How Kindness Culture Punishes Women

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    11 February 2025

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Summary

‘Victoria Smith is a brilliant writer who every feminist should read’ Sharron Davies

‘Erudite, blisteringly smart and profoundly compassionate… A must-read for anyone hungry to understand the origins and dangers of contemporary exhortations to women to #BeKind, and for everyone who wants to live a feminist life’ Dr Rachel Hewitt

A brilliantly witty and insightful analysis of how kindness culture is used against women.

Using the #JustBeKind trend of the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349127149
ISBN-10:034912714X
Author:Victoria Smith
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Fleet
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:11 February 2025
Weight:400g
Dimensions:230mm x 152mm x 32mm
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Critics Review

Brilliant… compelling * Lucy Mangan, The i *In her new, deftly-written and often humorous book, (Un)kind, feminist author Victoria Smith tackles the pervasive tide of unbridled misogyny masquerading as kindness * Julie Bindel, Telegraph *(Un)kind is erudite, blisteringly smart and profoundly compassionate towards those who need it most: women. With subtlety and elegance, Victoria Smith reveals how, throughout history, women have been trained to provide kindness to others while quashing our own needs; and she deftly teases out the difficult question of how feminists can still believe that caring for one another is a social good without being exploited in the process. A must-read for anyone hungry to understand the origins and dangers of contemporary exhortations to women to #BeKind, and for everyone who wants to live a feminist life * Dr Rachel Hewitt *

About The Author

Victoria Smith

Victoria Smith is the author of Hags: the demonisation of middle-aged women. Her journalism appears in The Critic, the New Statesman and various other publications.

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