{"product_id":"9781635421019","title":"Girl","description":"By: Camille Laurens     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Dancer Aged Fourteen\u003c\/i\u003e, a deeply personal and insightful account of being a girl, woman, and mother in a world that sees the feminine as less than.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in 1959 to a middle-class family, Laurence Barraqué grows up with her sister in the northern city of Rouen. Her father is a doctor, her mother a housewife. She understands from an early age, by way of language and her parents’ example, that a girl’s place in life is inferior to a boy’s: Asked for the 1964 census whether he has any children, her father promptly responds, “No. I have two daughters.” When Laurence eventually becomes a mother herself in the nineties, she grapples with the question of what it means to be a girl, to have a girl, and what lessons she should try to pass down or undo.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMasterful in her analysis of the subtle and obvious ways women are undermined by a sexist society, Camille Laurens lays out her experiences of the past forty years in this poignant, powerful book. \u003ci\u003eGirl \u003c\/i\u003eis at once intimate and sweeping in its depiction of the great challenges we face, such as equalizing the education system and transmitting feminist values to the younger generations.","brand":"Other Press","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46782288134371,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781635421019","price":109.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781635421019.jpg?v=1751721923","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9781635421019","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}