Hags, Victoria Smith

Hags, Victoria SmithNew Paperback What is about about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage almost everyone? In the last few years, as identity politics has taken hold, middle aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings, the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. Hags asks the question why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme

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