Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

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An unmissable essay from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next

'A magnificent text' KATY HESSEL 'A must-read' PSYCHOLOGIES 'Radical, incisive, thoughtful ... I can't recommend enough' VICKY SPRATT

For too long, beauty has been entangled in the forces of patriarchy and capitalism: objectification, shame, control, competition and consumerism. We need to find a way to do beauty differently.

This radical, deeply personal and empowering essay points to ways we can all embrace our unruly beauty and enjoy our magnificent, disobedient bodies.

'Fresh, new and important' THE IRISH TIMES 'Powerful' THE i, Best New Books 'This is the book we have needed ... a clarion call for us to reconsider the entire contemporary concept of beauty' GLAMOUR