How To Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Ebury Publishing

Published:1st Mar '12

Should be back in stock very soon

How To Be a Woman cover

A new way to look at feminism from Caitlin Moran, one of our funniest writers

It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain... Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? This book answers these questions.


Listen to the brand new dramatisation of How To Be a Woman, narrated by Caitlin herself, as part of BBC Radio 4's Riot Girls season


Selected by Emma Watson for her feminist book club ‘Our Shared Shelf’


It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain...

Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby?

Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin answers the questions that every modern woman is asking.

"I adore, admire and - more - am addicted to Caitin Moran's writing" Nigella Lawson "I have been waiting for this book my whole life" Claudia Winkleman "This might just be the funniest intelligent book ever written .. Moran's work packs a feminist punch in a way that Germaine Greer and an entire army of female eunuchs could never do, because she writes about things we've all done, thought, and said - but not quite so eloquently...the book everyone will be talking about" Stylist "Moran's writing sparkles with wit and warmth. Like the confidences of your smartest friend" Simon Pegg "It would almost be unkind to call this an important book, because what it mostly is is engaging, brave and consistently, cleverly naughtily funny, but actually it is important that we talk about this stuff" -- Katy Guest Independent on Sunday

  • Winner of Galaxy National Book Awards: More4 Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2011
  • Winner of Galaxy National Book Awards: Galaxy Book of the Year 2011
  • Winner of Irish Book Awards: RTE Radio 1's The John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award 2011

ISBN: 9780091940744

Dimensions: 198mm x 126mm x 20mm

Weight: 229g

336 pages