FIGHT LIKE A GIRL

The much awaited debut collection of essays from feminist writer and firebrand Clementine Ford.

Part Caitlin Moran, part Roxane Gay and part Jessica Valenti, Fight Like a Girl takes a fearless approach to reclaiming the fight for women’s liberation as one of the most important battlegrounds of the 21st century. Ultimately, it is a call to have women once again demand and fight for a world in which they have real equality and not merely the illusion of it. It’s a refrain that’s been repeated ad nauseum over the past decade. Feminism. It’s dead, over, kaput. Finished. Pack it up, people. We’re all equal now, so we should shut our screeching mouths and go back home where we belong. But if this is what it means to be living in a post-feminist world, why does it taste so sour? If women are all so equal, why are women still doing the lion’s share of unpaid work, and then made to feel foolish when we complain about it? Why are women still overwhelmingly the victims of male violence, punished for inviting it, punished for enduring it and only finally forgiven when it ends up killing us? Through a mixture of memoir style storytelling and investigative journalism, Fight Like A Girl exposes just how unequal the world continues to be for women. An accessible text for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised that will give them new language to articulate their rage and frustrations, Fight Like a Girl will make women laugh, scream and cry. Clementine Ford’s take on social issues is bold, brave and entertaining. She inspires and challenges people of all ages in equal measure. CLEMENTINE FORD is a Melbourne based writer, speaker and feminist thinker. She is a columnist for Fairfax’s Daily Life and is a regular contributor to The Age and theSydney Morning Herald. Through her twice weekly columns forDaily Life, Clementine explores issues of gender inequality and pop culture. Her ability to use both humour and distilled fury to lay bare ongoing issues affecting women has earned her a huge and loyal readership amongst both women and men.