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" National Bestseller Named a Most Anticipated Book by:The New York Times * Buzzfeed * Time.com * OprahMag.com * The Millions * The Rumpus * LitHub * Paperback Paris * The Lily ( Washington Post ) * Ms . * LAMBDA Literary A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society. In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny. Written with Febos' characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self. "
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Biographisches: " Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart and two essay collections: Abandon Me and Girlhood . The inaugural winner of the Jeanne Córdova Nonfiction Award from LAMBDA Literary and the recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The BAU Institute, Vermont Studio Center, The Barbara Deming Foundation, and others,her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney's Quarterly, Granta, Sewanee Review, Tin House, The Sun, and The New York Times . She is an associate professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program." Rezension(2): "The New York Times Book Review:Febos's own voice is so irreverent and original. The aim of this book, though, is not simply to tell about her own life, but to listen to the pulses of many others'. In her author's note, Febos writes that she has 'found company in the stories of other women, and the revelation of all our ordinariness has itself been curative.' This solidarity puts Girlhood in a feminist canon that includes Febos's idol, Adrienne Rich, and Maggie Nelson's theory-minded masterpieces: smart, radical company, and not ordinary at all." Rezension(3): "The New Yorker:The harrowing nature of transformation is Girlhood's core subject, and in seven chapters Febos explores the interconnected aspects of patriarchy and the marks that they've left on her . The book's centerpiece is a magisterial, seventy-six-page essay on what Febos terms 'empty consent'-not merely agreeing to unwanted sex, but the ways in which women are programmed to collaborate in their own diminishment . Febos has some idea of how to break this cycle . She is also, perhaps, correcting the story of the girl-dreamer, whose elegy, it turns out, may have been premature-she lives to mother the woman." Rezension(4): "The Atlantic:Febos is an intoxicating writer, but I found myself most grateful for the vivid clarity of her thinking... disquisitive and catalytic-it doesn't demand change so much as expose certain injustices so starkly that you might feel you cannot abide them another minute...I never once needed trigonometry and I couldn't find Catullus in a crossword these days, but Febos's education is a kind I surely could have used." Rezension(5): "Stephanie Danler, author of SWEETBITTER: Girlhood is an exquisite collection. In lapidary, lucid prose, Melissa Febos dissects the traumas, terrors, and pleasures of the fraught passage from girl to woman. Febos's insight is devastating, the examinations of her world –" Rezension(6): "The Washington Post:I wish I could have read Girlhood when I was young . Over the course of eight essays with poignant illustrations by Forsyth Harmon, Febos interrogates the strength, savvy and vulnerabilities of girlhood . whether examining adolescent bullying and the etymological roots of the word 'slut' or exploring the evolution of consent against the backdrop of cuddle parties, Febos illuminates how women are conditioned to be complicit in our own exploitation. Like much of her scholarship, it begins with somatic knowledge of the self." Rezension(7): "Carmen Maria Machado, author of IN THE DREAM HOUSE and HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES:In this book, Febos proves herself to be one of the great documenters of the terrible and exquisite depths of girlhood. Here, that terrible and beautiful aeon is dissected, sung over, explored like ancient ruins. These essays are moss and iron-hard and beautiful-and struck through with Febos' signature brilliance and power and grace. An essential, heartbreaking project." Rezension(8): "Ariel Levy, author of The Rules Do Not Apply and Female Chauvinist Pigs:Melissa Febos is part poet, part theorist, and all writer. In this lyrical, searching, profound, and personal collection, Febos examines childhood, femaleness, and love in its many forms with a sensuous ferocity that is all her own." Rezension(9): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: November 30, 2020 Febos (Abandon Me) recounts her traumatizing adolescence in eight revealing essays. As she writes in the introduction, “I was a happy child. The age of ten or eleven... marked a violent turn” in which the harsh realities of true “girlhood” began. She then comments on the horrific ways in which women are bent from an early age by the male ego, citing examples from classic literature (“I recently reread Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth and found it almost too painful to finish”), film, and behavioral research. In “Kettle Holes,” she recalls how, at 11, a neighborhood boy repeatedly spat on her for reasons she still cannot comprehend. In “Mirror Test,” at 12, she submitted to the groping of a friend’s brother and his friends as part of a “game,” and it’s moments such as these, she writes, that “trained her mind” to embrace values “that do not prioritize safety, happiness, freedom.” Over time, she adopted false “stories about ,” which led to heroin abuse and a harrowing stint in sex work. She closes with “Les Calanques,” in which she describes her recovery in the South of France on a monastic writing retreat. The prose is restrained but lyrical throughout. Raw and unflinching, this dark coming-of-age story impresses at every turn." Rezension(10): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: January 1, 2021 An acclaimed nonfiction writer gathers essays embracing the pleasure, pain, and power of growing up as a girl and woman. In her latest powerful personal and cultural examination, Febos interrogates the complexities of feminism and the darkness that has defined much of her life and career. In Kettle Holes, she describes how experiences of humiliation at the hands of a boy she loved helped shape some of the pleasure she later found working as a dominatrix (an experience she vividly recounted in her 2010 book, Whip Smart). As she fearlessly plumbed the depths of her precocious sexuality in private, she watched in dismay as patriarchal society transformed her into a passive thing. In Wild America, the author delves into body-shaming issues, recounting how, during adolescence, self-hatred manifested as a desire to physically erase herself and her gigantic hands. Only later, in the love she found with a lesbian partner, did she finally appreciate the pleasure her hands could give her and others. Febos goes on to explore the complicated nature of mother-daughter relationships in Thesmophoria, writing about the suffering she brought to her mother through lies and omissions about clandestine--and sometimes dangerous--sexual experiments and youthful flirtations with crystal meth and heroin. Their relationship was based on the ritual violence that informed the Persephone/Demeter dyad, in which the daughter alternately brought both pain and joy to her mother. Intrusions considers how patriarchy transforms violence against women into narratives of courtship that pervert the meaning of love. In Thank You for Taking Care of Yourself, Febos memorably demonstrates how the simple act of platonic touching can be transformed into a psychosexual minefield for women. Profound and gloriously provocative, this book--a perfect follow-up to her equally visceral previous memoir, Abandon Me (2017)--transforms the wounds and scars of lived female experience into an occasion for self-understanding that is both honest and lyrical. Consistently illuminating, unabashedly ferocious writing. COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(11): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: February 1, 2021 Febos' third work of memoir, following Whip Smart (2010) and Abandon Me (2017), springs from a fissure: the time when my childhood became more distinctly a girlhood. In long, artistic, and art-informed essays that are rich with references, Febos looks to her past and to the woman it continues to guide. Wild America, named for the PBS nature show she loved as a kid, is a roving catalog of delighting in her own animalness and the eventual, painful understanding that it must be tamed. I imagine reversing the film of my personhood, reeling the spool to find the single frame where it all changes. Multiple pieces consider how women and girls learn that they are looked at, and the fracturing effects of being forced to accept this unrelenting observation. In particular, Thank You for Taking Care of Yourself begins at an organized adult cuddle party and becomes a wide-ranging study of complexities of consent in a patriarchal society. Buzzing black-and-white drawings by Forsyth Harmon begin each essay, illustrating a quote from the piece. In this book of liberating inquiry and divine depth, Febos again and again connects the constellations of herself and the world she and all women must learn to live in. COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(12): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 1, 2021 Febos (English, Univ. of Iowa, Whip Smart ) returns with a new collection of essays about the bridge between girlhood and womanhood. Dissecting the transitory innocence of adolescence, this latest work uses themes of sex and power to explore the old adage What you think, you become. Recounting self-destructive beha
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aviors that led to her personal transformation and eventual salvation from drug addiction and social programming to please men, Febos's newest collection of essays addresses misogyny from the inside out. From the dangers of stalkers, to enlightening revelations at cuddle parties, this work is powerful, raw, and provocative. With her signature rhythmic style and stream of consciousness propelling the narrative, the author's critique of becoming is as tender as it is relentless. Febos's writing possesses the same heartbreaking elegance and haunting lyricism as that of feminist authors Roxane Gay, Caitlin Moran, and Carmen Maria Machado. VERDICT A thought-provoking collection that will appeal to fans of fierce feminist prose. The inclusion of occasional poetry is a bonus. --Alana Quarles, Fairfax County P.L., Alexandria, VACopyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "
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