Hello,
We are pleased to announce a Zoomchat with feminist journalist and writer Victoria Smith about her new book Hags.
Victoria will be chatting with Justine about the book and answering your questions on Monday 27th March from 8 to 9pm, and you can book your place now by registering for free here.
Please post your questions below ahead of the zoomchat. Please note that we will be closing the thread on Monday morning so please ensure you have posted your questions before then. If there is time, there will also be an opportunity to ask additional questions live on the night.
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Places are limited (only 100 available) so register now to book your place.
About Victoria Smith:
Victoria is a regular contributor to The Critic and other publications, focusing on women's issues, parenting and mental health. Her newsletter, The OK Karen, about midlife women's experiences of feminism, was launched last year.
In her latest book Hags she explores why middle-aged women (and older) are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme - care work, beauty, violence, political organisation, sex - and explores it in relation to middle-aged women's beliefs, bodies and choices. She traces the attitudes she describes back to the same anxieties about older women that drove Early Modern witch hunts, and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so powerful today. This is a righteous, insightful and clever read.
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Zoomchat with Victoria Smith on her new book 'Hags' - 27th March
NicolaDMumsnet · 23/03/2023 17:06
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