{"product_id":"girl-9781635421019","title":"Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Dancer Aged Fourteen\u003c\/i\u003e, a deeply personal and insightful account of being a girl, woman, and mother in a world that sees the feminine as less than.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in 1959 to a middle-class family, Laurence Barraqué grows up with her sister in the northern city of Rouen. Her father is a doctor, her mother a housewife. She understands from an early age, by way of language and her parents' example, that a girl's place in life is inferior to a boy's: Asked for the 1964 census whether he has any children, her father promptly responds, \"No. I have two daughters.\" When Laurence eventually becomes a mother herself in the nineties, she grapples with the question of what it means to be a girl, to have a girl, and what lessons she should try to pass down or undo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMasterful in her analysis of the subtle and obvious ways women are undermined by a sexist society, Camille Laurens lays out her experiences of the past forty years in this poignant, powerful book. \u003ci\u003eGirl \u003c\/i\u003eis at once intimate and sweeping in its depiction of the great challenges we face, such as equalizing the education system and transmitting feminist values to the younger generations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurens, Camille\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Other Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635421019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.06h x 5.34w x 0.69d","brand":"Camille Laurens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39818329325643,"sku":"9781635421019","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_edfb85ca-8af5-4e3e-b5f8-fd035d47b134.jpg?v=1659409669","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/girl-9781635421019","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}