Clear-eyed, witty and irreverent, Laurie Penny is as ruthless in her dissection of modern
feminism and class politics as she is in discussing her own experiences in journalism,
activism and underground culture.
This is a book about poverty and prejudice, online dating and eating disorders, riots in
the streets and lies on the television. The backlash is on against sexual freedom for
men and women and social justice – and feminism needs to get braver.
Penny speaks for a new feminism that takes no prisoners, a feminism that is about
justice and equality, but also about freedom for all. It’s about the freedom to be who we
are, to love who we choose, to invent new gender roles, and to speak out fiercely against
those who would deny us those rights. It is a book that gives the silenced a voice – a
voice that speaks of unspeakable things.
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Laurie Penny is the youngest person to be short-listed for the Orwell Prize for
her Penny Red blog. She is a Contributing Editor to the New Statesman and
has 77,000 followers on Twitter
Leading feminist commentator and most recently a contributor to Channel 4
News item on the sexist abuse on Twitter row:
http://www.channel4.com/news/internet-trolls-twitter-sexist-abuse-police-laws
Laurie Penny writes for Vice, the Guardian, the Nation (US), Salon.com (US)
and boingboing.net

About the Author

Laurie Penny is a writer and journalist. She writes for Vice, the Guardian and many other publications, is a columnist and Contributing Editor at the New Statesman magazine and Editor-at-Large at cult New York literary project The New Inquiry. At the age of twenty-three she was the youngest person to be shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing for her blog 'Penny Red' which, like her first feminist book, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism, was a word-of-mouth hit. She has reported on radical politics, protest, digital culture and feminism from around the world, working with