Author Event: Victoria Smith

Join Victoria Smith as she talks about her book Hags: the Demonisation of Middle Aged Women.

What is it about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone? Victoria asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme such as care work, beauty, violence - and explores it in relation to middle-aged women’s beliefs, bodies, histories and choices. Victoria traces the attitudes she describes through history, and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so powerful today.

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