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"An Instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller With her signature candor and wit, New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Moran attempts to answer society's weirdly unasked question: What About Men? Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been confronted with the question: ""But what about men?"" And at first, tbh, she dgaf. Boys, and men, are fine, right? Feminism doesn't need to worry about them. However, around the time she heard an angry young man saying he was ""boycotting"" International Women' Day because ""It's easier to be a woman than a man these days,"" she started to wonder: are unhappy boys, and men, also making unhappy women? The statistics on male misery are grim: boys are falling behind in school, are at greater risk of depression, greater risk of suicide, and, most pertinently, are increasingly at risk from online misogynist radicalization. Will the Sixth Wave of feminism need to fix the men, if it wants to fix the women? Moran began to investigate--talking to her husband, close male friends, and her daughters' friends: bringing up very difficult and candid topics, and receiving vulnerable and honest responses. So: what about men? Why do they only go to the doctor if their partner makes them? Why do they never discuss their penises with each other--but make endless jokes about their balls? What is porn doing for young men? Is sexual strangling a good hobby for young people to have? Are men ever allowed to be sad? Are they ever allowed to lose? Have Men's Rights Activists confused ""power"" with ""empowerment""? Are Mid-Life Crises actually quite cool? And what's the deal with Jordan Peterson's lobster? In this thoughtful, warm, provocative book, Moran opens a genuinely new debate about how to reboot masculinity for the twenty-first century, so that ""straight white man"" doesn't automatically mean bad news--but also uses the opportunity to make a lot of jokes about testicles, and trousers. Because if men have neither learned to mine their deepest anxieties about masculinity for comedy, nor answered the question ""What About Men?,"" then it's up to a busy woman to do it."

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"Insightful nuggets of truth and practical wisdom mix with the snorts and sputters of laughter, making this a worthwhile, enjoyable, and timely read. -- Booklist ""This very funny writer addresses the dearth of discussion and support for men's problems, applying a sympathetic eye . . . Reassuring, enlightening, and inspiring."" -- Kirkus Reviews &#8220There is a good reason for [its success]: it is pretty phenomenal....[Moran] wrote the book in just 5 months....Chances are you'll read it in far less time than that, turning down the corners of extra-resonating pages to come back to later.” -- Jenn Doll, The Atlantic Wire ""If you haven't heard of Caitlin Moran, I'm afraid you deserve to be publicly shamed.... [She's] a hilarious, insightful feminist intellectual who writes about politics with the same clarity and ease as she does Benedict Cumberbatch.... This is a book that made me miss my subway stop in both directions."" -- Dana Schwartz, Observer ""A fresh, funny take on modern feminism that shines a light on issues facing every woman, lovingly boiled down to the basics with insight and humor."" -- Today Show ""The joy of Moran's writing lies in how she combines thoughtfulness and intelligence with proper belly laughs.... It's this clarity about how the world can be improved, how we can all be better at life, that lies at the heart of Moran's writing. She may be funny, but she's also right."" -- Independent (London) ""No one tackles issues as big as income inequality and global warming or as small as bang trims and Benedict Cumberbatch's ass quite like the wickedly funny Caitlin Moran."" -- Cosmopolitan ""Superbly funny....The most obvious precursor to More Than a Woman is I Feel Bad About My Neck.... But where Ephron's impulse was to chronicle the often inglorious slide towards old age, Moran's is, where possible, to celebrate and find value in it."" -- The Guardian ""One of the funniest feminist writers working today.... [More Than a Woman] asks new probing questions--with a wink and a smirk--that get to the heart of mid-life gender inequity."" -- Bust Magazine ""Caitlin Moran is not only hilarious, sharply intelligent and so much more than a 'shit Dickens or Orwell, but with tits'; she is one of the most astute social commentators hitting a keyboard today."" -- The Independent &#8220A spirited memoir/manifesto....With equal amounts snarky brio and righteous anger....That such an important topic is couched in ribald humor makes reading about Moran's journey hilarious as well as provocative....Rapturously irreverent, this book should kick-start plenty of useful discussions.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"

&#8220There is a good reason for [its success]: it is pretty phenomenal....[Moran] wrote the book in just 5 months....Chances are you'll read it in far less time than that, turning down the corners of extra-resonating pages to come back to later. -- Jenn Doll, The Atlantic Wire If you haven't heard of Caitlin Moran, I'm afraid you deserve to be publicly shamed.... [She's] a hilarious, insightful feminist intellectual who writes about politics with the same clarity and ease as she does Benedict Cumberbatch.... This is a book that made me miss my subway stop in both directions. -- Dana Schwartz, Observer &#8220A fresh, funny take on modern feminism that shines a light on issues facing every woman, lovingly boiled down to the basics with insight and humor. -- Today Show The joy of Moran's writing lies in how she combines thoughtfulness and intelligence with proper belly laughs.... It's this clarity about how the world can be improved, how we can all be better at life, that lies at the heart of Moran's writing. She may be funny, but she's also right. -- Independent (London) No one tackles issues as big as income inequality and global warming or as small as bang trims and Benedict Cumberbatch's ass quite like the wickedly funny Caitlin Moran. -- Cosmopolitan Superbly funny....The most obvious precursor to More Than a Woman is I Feel Bad About My Neck.... But where Ephron's impulse was to chronicle the often inglorious slide towards old age, Moran's is, where possible, to celebrate and find value in it. -- The Guardian One of the funniest feminist writers working today.... [More Than a Woman] asks new probing questions--with a wink and a smirk--that get to the heart of mid-life gender inequity. -- Bust Magazine &#8220Caitlin Moran is not only hilarious, sharply intelligent and so much more than a 'shit Dickens or Orwell, but with tits'; she is one of the most astute social commentators hitting a keyboard today. -- Abby O'Reilly, The Independent &#8220A spirited memoir/manifesto....With equal amounts snarky brio and righteous anger....That such an important topic is couched in ribald humor makes reading about Moran's journey hilarious as well as provocative....Rapturously irreverent, this book should kick-start plenty of useful discussions. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"&#8220There is a good reason for [its success]: it is pretty phenomenal....[Moran] wrote the book in just 5 months....Chances are you'll read it in far less time than that, turning down the corners of extra-resonating pages to come back to later.” -- Jenn Doll, The Atlantic Wire ""If you haven't heard of Caitlin Moran, I'm afraid you deserve to be publicly shamed.... [She's] a hilarious, insightful feminist intellectual who writes about politics with the same clarity and ease as she does Benedict Cumberbatch.... This is a book that made me miss my subway stop in both directions."" -- Dana Schwartz, Observer &#8220A fresh, funny take on modern feminism that shines a light on issues facing every woman, lovingly boiled down to the basics with insight and humor.” -- Today Show ""The joy of Moran's writing lies in how she combines thoughtfulness and intelligence with proper belly laughs.... It's this clarity about how the world can be improved, how we can all be better at life, that lies at the heart of Moran's writing. She may be funny, but she's also right."" -- Independent (London) ""No one tackles issues as big as income inequality and global warming or as small as bang trims and Benedict Cumberbatch's ass quite like the wickedly funny Caitlin Moran."" -- Cosmopolitan ""Superbly funny....The most obvious precursor to More Than a Woman is I Feel Bad About My Neck.... But where Ephron's impulse was to chronicle the often inglorious slide towards old age, Moran's is, where possible, to celebrate and find value in it."" -- The Guardian ""One of the funniest feminist writers working today.... [More Than a Woman] asks new probing questions--with a wink and a smirk--that get to the heart of mid-life gender inequity."" -- Bust Magazine &#8220Caitlin Moran is not only hilarious, sharply intelligent and so much more than a 'shit Dickens or Orwell, but with tits'; she is one of the most astute social commentators hitting a keyboard today.” -- Abby O'Reilly, The Independent &#8220A spirited memoir/manifesto....With equal amounts snarky brio and righteous anger....That such an important topic is couched in ribald humor makes reading about Moran's journey hilarious as well as provocative....Rapturously irreverent, this book should kick-start plenty of useful discussions.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"

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Caitlin Moran's debut book, How to Be a Woman, was an instant New York Times bestseller, with more than one million copies distributed worldwide. Her first novel, How to Build a Girl, received widespread acclaim, and she adapted it into a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein and Emma Thompson. As a twice-weekly columnist at The Times of London, Moran has won Columnist of the Year seven times. She lives in London.

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