It's Not That I'm Bitter...: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World - Hardcover

Barreca, Gina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312547269 ISBN 13: 9780312547264

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2009

Synopsis

Gina Barreca is not bitter about the way Sarah Palin played the 'Cute Hockey Mom' card, but she wonders why a woman like Hillary Clinton still has to worry about her highlights while deciding whether or not to bail out Wall Street. She's still confused, years later, about why Anne Bancroft, thirty-six when "The Graduate" was filmed, was cast as 'the older woman'. In "It's not that I'm Bitter...", Barreca ponders these questions and many others by giving women a hilarious antidote for the toxic 'musts' they've been fed over the centuries. In essays that mull everything from the horror of chin hairs to why the 'glass ceiling' is better described as a thick layer of men, Barreca tells women to stop believing the lies and conquer the world - and she does it with a sharp wit, good shoes and remarkably little eye cream.

About this title

About the Author

GINA BARRECA, Ph.D. is a professor of English and Feminist Theory at the University of Connecticut and author of Babes in Boyland, They Used to Call Me Snow White, but I Drifted and I’m With Stupid: One Man, One Woman, and 10,000 Years of Misunderstandings Between The Sexes Cleared Right Up (coauthored with Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post). She grew up in Brooklyn and now lives in Storrs, CT. Go figure.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0312547269
• ISBN 13: 9780312547264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256