Inappropriate Behaviour: Prada Sucks and other Demented Descants - Softcover

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9781852426859: Inappropriate Behaviour: Prada Sucks and other Demented Descants

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ISBN 10: 1852426853 ISBN 13: 9781852426859

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2002

A new century, maybe, but what the mainstream media sees as 'womens interests' remains totally predictable. Inappropriate Behaviour is a collection by writers who neither wish to be Bridget Jones or look like Jennifer Aniston, nor do they want to experience plastic surgery or winter in Taos or make things with radiccio. Subject matter? Molls, mothers, Satanism, Kenneth Anger, and slash-lit.

Inspired by Naomi Klein's No Logo, Inappropriate Behaviour rejects the globalization of culture. It asserts the individual's right to live, dress and party in ways that reflect personal choices and not the commercial dictates of 'style'. It is essential reading for all women who refuse to sell their souls for a pair of Manolo Blahniks and don't want to to live on nouvelle cuisine.

Contributors include: Debbie Barham, Jessica Berens, Penny Birch, Jenny Blythe, Mikita Brottman, Lydia Lunch, Annabel Chong, Tama Janowitz.

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About the Author:

Jessica Berens has also written two novels: Queen of the Witches and The Highwayman. Kerri Sharp is the editor of Black Lace erotic fiction published by Virgin

Review:

?There is an appealing energy about the book? Rowan Pelling, Daily Telegraph ?picks at the ordered threads of society, unravelling taboos and shredding stereotypes in a bid to poke discrimination in the eye... Why not cause a few raised eyebrows yourself and read it on the tube at rush hour? Ruth Saxelby, Jockey Slut ?An interesting collection of female voices looking at anything and everything from a varied perspective. And there?s nothing inappropriate about that? Francesca Gavin, Dazed and Confused ?A liberating acknowledgement that for post-feminist women, there?s an alternative to the bland conformity and consumerism offered as an increasingly usual model by product placers? Tina Jackson, Big Issue

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