It's Terrible The Things I Have to Do To Be Me
On Femininity and Fame
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Publishing:3rd Jul '25
£20.00
This title is due to be published on 3rd July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
'Snow is witty, funny and sharp as a knife' Camilla Gudrova, author of Children of Paradise
'Snow writes with such kinetic, sensory power' Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum Road
'An essential cultural critic' Lauren Elkin, author of Scaffolding
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How does an icon become an icon? How did Anna Nicole Smith model herself on Marilyn Monroe? What connects Lindsay Lohan with Elizabeth Taylor? How is self-made beauty Pamela Anderson like trans bond girl Caroline 'Tula' Cossey?
In a series of interconnected essays about pairs of famous women, award-nominated essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars and lays bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity - from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era. Full of the fascinating, entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous celebrities, dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish, flamboyant prose, Philippa Snow's first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.
ISBN: 9780349017716
Dimensions: 222mm x 138mm x 22mm
Weight: unknown
320 pages