(Un)kind: How Kindness Culture Punishes Women
Autor Victoria Smithen Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 feb 2025
'This brilliant book shows how demands for compassion and generosity can be a mask for sexist ideology' Susanna Rustin
A brilliantly witty and insightful analysis of how kindness culture is used against women.
Using the #JustBeKind trend of the 2020s as a starting point, (Un)kind explores how traditional beliefs about women's 'kind' nature have been repackaged for an age that remains dependent - socially, politically, economically - on female self-sacrifice while finding the concept outdated and essentialist.
Looking at the various guises under which kindness culture is sold to women and girls - from play to self-help, social justice activism to empowerment - Victoria Smith argues that the pressure on women and girls has not decreased, but instead been incorporated into the 'work' of feminism. (Un)kind analyses the way in which this phenomenon ultimately distorts relationships, harming not just those coerced into performing 'kindness work' but the supposed recipients of their services.
Kindness culture supports the backlash against feminism while claiming to represent feminism's - and women's - true nature. It is, at heart, unkind.
'Erudite, blisteringly smart and profoundly compassionate... A must-read for anyone hungry to understand the origins and dangers of contemporary exhortations to women to #BeKind, and for everyone who wants to live a feminist life' Dr Rachel Hewitt
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'The greatest joy of Hags is its lively erudition . . . eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times
'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer
'Brilliantly witty, engaging and insightful' Scotsman
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349127132
ISBN-10: 0349127131
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 160 x 238 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Fleet
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349127131
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 160 x 238 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Fleet
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Brilliant... compelling
Be kind sounds benign but this brilliant book shows how demands for compassion and generosity can be a mask for sexist ideology. I am full of admiration for the way Smith converts her extraordinarily clear sight about women's position in society into persuasive and readable prose. As feminist readers, we are lucky to have her
In her new, deftly-written and often humorous book, (Un)kind, feminist author Victoria Smith tackles the pervasive tide of unbridled misogyny masquerading as kindness
(Un)kind is erudite, blisteringly smart and profoundly compassionate towards those who need it most: women. With subtlety and elegance, Victoria Smith reveals how, throughout history, women have been trained to provide kindness to others while quashing our own needs; and she deftly teases out the difficult question of how feminists can still believe that caring for one another is a social good without being exploited in the process. A must-read for anyone hungry to understand the origins and dangers of contemporary exhortations to women to #BeKind, and for everyone who wants to live a feminist life
[extract] This book is not a criticism of kindness, empathy, compassion etc. as 'woke' concepts, but a critique of how a particular interpretation of kindness functions to condition, exploit, shame and/or silence women and girls.
'Erudite, blisteringly smart and profoundly compassionate... A must-read for anyone hungry to understand the origins and dangers of contemporary exhortations to women to #BeKind, and for everyone who wants to live a feminist life' Dr Rachel Hewitt
PRAISE FOR HAGS
'The greatest joy of Hags is its lively erudition . . . eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times
'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer
'Brilliantly witty, engaging and insightful' Scotsman
Be kind sounds benign but this brilliant book shows how demands for compassion and generosity can be a mask for sexist ideology. I am full of admiration for the way Smith converts her extraordinarily clear sight about women's position in society into persuasive and readable prose. As feminist readers, we are lucky to have her
In her new, deftly-written and often humorous book, (Un)kind, feminist author Victoria Smith tackles the pervasive tide of unbridled misogyny masquerading as kindness
(Un)kind is erudite, blisteringly smart and profoundly compassionate towards those who need it most: women. With subtlety and elegance, Victoria Smith reveals how, throughout history, women have been trained to provide kindness to others while quashing our own needs; and she deftly teases out the difficult question of how feminists can still believe that caring for one another is a social good without being exploited in the process. A must-read for anyone hungry to understand the origins and dangers of contemporary exhortations to women to #BeKind, and for everyone who wants to live a feminist life
[extract] This book is not a criticism of kindness, empathy, compassion etc. as 'woke' concepts, but a critique of how a particular interpretation of kindness functions to condition, exploit, shame and/or silence women and girls.
'Erudite, blisteringly smart and profoundly compassionate... A must-read for anyone hungry to understand the origins and dangers of contemporary exhortations to women to #BeKind, and for everyone who wants to live a feminist life' Dr Rachel Hewitt
PRAISE FOR HAGS
'The greatest joy of Hags is its lively erudition . . . eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times
'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer
'Brilliantly witty, engaging and insightful' Scotsman