My Body

Emily Ratajkowski

£10.99

A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time.

Paperback

Biography & Memoir > General > Non-Fiction

ISBN: 9781529415919

Description

Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer.

Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment.

The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture’s commodification of women is the subject of this book. My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men’s treatment of women and women’s rationalizations for accepting that treatment.

These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski’s life while investigating the culture’s fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt for women’s sexuality, the perverse dynamics of the fashion and film industries, and the grey area between consent and abuse.

Nuanced, unflinching, and incisive, My Body marks the debut of a fierce writer brimming with courage and intelligence.

‘This is the book for every woman trying to place their body on the map of consumption vs control, and every woman who wants to better understand her impulses. It left me much changed’Lena Dunham

‘I read these pages, breathless with recognition, and the thrill of reading a new voice telling it like it is‘ – Dani Shapiro

‘Emily Ratajkowski’s first essay collection needs to be read by everyone […] both page-turning and moving as hell‘ – Amy Schumer

A slow, complicated indictment of a profession and the people who propel it […] it will deliver a more nuanced and introspective rendering of her interior than those who come to it with those surface interests might expect‘ – Vogue

Dazzling’Observer

‘Ratajkowski brings nuanced insight to questions about empowerment versus commodification of women’s bodies and sexuality. Blending cultural criticism and personal stories, My Body is smart and powerful‘ – Time Magazine

‘Raw, nuanced and beautifully written. A moving and enlightening experience to join a woman openly exploring such deep parts of her physical self via the written word. A truly impressive debut‘ – Emma Gannon

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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm