Laurie Penny
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize 2014
Laurie Penny, one of our most prominent young voices of feminism and dissent, presents a trenchant report on our society today—and our society tomorrow, as she is willing to fight to see it.
Smart, clear-eyed, and irreverent, Unspeakable Things is a fresh look at gender and power in the twenty-first century, which asks difficult questions about dissent and...
Laurie Penny, one of our most prominent young voices of feminism and dissent, presents a trenchant report on our society today—and our society tomorrow, as she is willing to fight to see it.
Smart, clear-eyed, and irreverent, Unspeakable Things is a fresh look at gender and power in the twenty-first century, which asks difficult questions about dissent and...
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Español
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"Internet no es para todo el mundo". Sobre esta premisa, la escritora británica Laurie Penny expone su experiencia y conocimiento sobre lo que significa ser mujer y participar activamente en la red. El acoso, la vigilancia y el machismo son los ejes que sostienen el cibersexismo en Internet, un espacio público donde mujeres y chicas jóvenes se enfrentan a la misoginia y la desigualdad.
Este capítulo es un adelanto del libro de próxima aparición...
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English
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"The Hundreth House Had No Walls," a Tor.com Original short story from the award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, essayist, public speaker, and activist Laure Penny.
The King was bored.
For five hundred years he had been King of the country of Myth and Shadow, and he was a good king, if a slightly bewildered one.
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English
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In the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the most prominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diverse writings, showing what it is to be young, angry and progressive in the face of an increasingly violent and oppressive UK government.
Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent collects Penny's writings on youth politics, resistance, feminism and culture. Her journalism is a unique blend of persuasive analysis,...
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English
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Everything Belongs to the Future is a bloody-minded tale of time, betrayal, desperation, and hope that could only have been told by the inimitable Laurie Penny.
Time is a weapon wielded by the rich, who have excess of it, against the rest, who must trade every breath of it against the promise of another day's food and shelter. What kind of world have we made, where human beings can live centuries if only they can afford the fix? What kind of creatures...
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English
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Modern culture is obsessed with controlling women's bodies. Our societies are, saturated with images of unreal, idealized female beauty whilst real female bodies and the women who inhabit them are alienated from their own personal and political potential. Under modern capitalism, women are both consumers and consumed, Meat Market offers strategies for resisting this gory cycle of consumption, exposing how the trade in female flesh extends into every...