Vanity Fair's Women on Women - Hardcover

Jones, Radhika; Friend, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525562141 ISBN 13: 9780525562146

Publisher: Penguin Press, 2019

Synopsis

Gail Sheehy on Hillary Clinton. Ingrid Sischy on Nicole Kidman. Jacqueline Woodson on Lena Waithe. Leslie Bennetts on Michelle Obama. And two Maureens (Orth and Dowd) on two Tinas (Turner and Fey). Vanity Fair's Women on Women features thirty of the best profiles on female subjects written by female contributors over the past thirty-five years. From the viewpoint of the female gaze come penetrating profiles on everyone from Gloria Steinem to Princess Diana to Whoopi Goldberg to essays on workplace sexual harassment to a post-#MeToo reassessment of the Clinton scandal by Monica Lewinsky.

About this title

Review:

"Vanity Fair magazine's latest essay collection, Women on Women, takes readers through the decades of history. While it certainly contains modern marvels like Tina Fey, Lena Waithe, and Nicole Kidman, equally appealing are essays on bygone legends including Emily Post and Frida Kahlo, written entirely by women. If, like many, your education was lacking in profound female figures, this tome will begin to fill in those gaps." --BUST

"An eminently enjoyable collection. . . . There are plenty of 'I didn't know that' moments." --Library Journal, starred review

"This dazzling collection features 28 profiles of famous women, including politicians, artists, musicians, and actresses, from the last 36 years of Vanity Fair. The profiles, each of which was written by a woman, offer snapshots of their subjects at key points in time, often with remarkable prescience. . . . This is an ideal collection for those who enjoy celebrity profiles with a bit more substance." --Publishers Weekly

"A vigorous selection of essays spanning the magazine's modern era that underscore the combative resilience of notable accomplished women who never gave in to what was expected of them...poignant tales of how one rises and falls and then rises again...Besides making for absorbing reading, these essays pack a feminist wallop."--Kirkus

About the Author:

Radhika Jones is the editor in chief of Vanity Fair. She has served as editorial director of the books department at The New York Times, deputy managing editor of Time, and managing editor at The Paris Review. She holds a PhD in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. David Friend, a writer, editor, curator, and formerly Life magazine's director of photography, is Vanity Fair's editor of creative development. He is the author of The Naughty Nineties and Watching the World Change, and an Emmy-winning documentary producer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0525562141
• ISBN 13: 9780525562146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448