漂亮女人：所有用来贬低女人的词汇 Pretty Bitches

基本信息

Format:Hardback 320 pages

Publisher:Seal Press

Imprint:Seal Press

ISBN:9781580059190

Published:26 Mar 2020

Dimensions:149 x 216 x 32 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

言语很重要。 它们伤害、它们膨胀、它们定义、它们贬低。 他们有细微差别和力量。 “毫不费力”、“时髦”、“雄心勃勃”、“进取”：当用这些词来描述女性时，会传达出怎样微妙的挖苦和偷偷摸摸的暗示？ 言语被制成武器、警告、赞扬和责备，对女性的生活产生巨大的影响——更不用说我们的情绪了。

没有人比《纽约时报》专栏“That Should be A Word”的作者、名副其实的文化造币女王丽齐·斯库尼克 (Lizzie Skurnick) 更了解这一点。 在《漂亮母狗》中，斯库尼克召集了一群实力雄厚的女作家，探讨这些词语的隐藏含义，以及它们如何限制我们的世界——或解放它们。

从劳拉·利普曼（Laura Lipmann）和梅格·沃尔泽（Meg Wolizer）到詹妮弗·韦纳（Jennifer Weiner）和丽贝卡·特雷斯特（Rebecca Traister），每位作家都用自己的文字作为回忆录、文化评论、批评或三者兼而有之的载体。 跨越街道、卧室、投票站和工作场所，这些简单的词语背后蕴含着巨大的故事——是时候审视、重新想象和改变这些故事了。

Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless," "Sassy," "Ambitious," "Aggressive": What subtle digs and implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons, warnings, praise, and blame, bearing an outsized influence on women's lives -- to say nothing of our moods.

No one knows this better than Lizzie Skurnick, writer of the New York Times' column "That Should be A Word"and a veritable queen of cultural coinage. And in Pretty Bitches, Skurnick has rounded up a group of powerhouse women writers to take on the hidden meanings of these words, and how they can limit our worlds -- or liberate them.

From Laura Lipmann and Meg Wolizer to Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Traister, each writer uses her word as a vehicle for memoir, cultural commentary, critique, or all three. Spanning the street, the bedroom, the voting booth, and the workplace, these simple words have huge stories behind them -- stories it's time to examine, re-imagine, and change.

作者简介

Lizzie Skurnick 是《纽约时报》杂志长期运营的造词专栏“That Should Be a Word”的创始人。 她的作品曾出现在《娱乐周刊》、《Slate》、《大西洋月刊》、《娱乐周刊》、NPR 周末版等媒体上。 她曾担任国家书评人协会副主席，并担任《洛杉矶时报》图书奖和笔会图书奖评委。 她在纽约大学任教，经常为《纽约时报》、NPR、Elle、Jezebel 和许多其他出版物撰稿。 她住在纽约市。

Lizzie Skurnick is the creator of the long-running New York Times Magazine word-coinage column "That Should Be a Word." Her coinages have been featured in Entertainment Weekly, Slate, The Atlantic Monthly, Entertainment Weekly, on NPR's Weekend Edition, and more. She served a term as Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle, and has been a judge for the LA Times book prize and the PEN Book awards. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, NPR, Elle, Jezebel, and many other publications, she teaches at NYU. She lives in New York City.