Attack Of The 50 Ft. Women - Mayer, Catherine
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'Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children' Sunday Express
Essential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality.

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'Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children' Sunday Express

Essential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality.
Autorenporträt
Catherine Mayer arbeitet als freie Redakteurin für die Zeitschrift "Time". Seit drei Jahrzehnten berichtet sie über internationale Politik und Zeitgeschichte und hat bereits zahlreiche Führungspersönlichkeiten interviewt: Präsidenten und Premierminister, Prominente aus Kultur und Wirtschaft, genauso wie Mitglieder des britischen Königshauses. Als Autorin hat sie mit ihrem Buch die Vorzüge und Gefahren der Alterslosigkeit, Amortality, für Aufsehen gesorgt. Catherine Mayer hat als Auslandskorrespondentin für die Zeitschrift Focus gearbeitet. Derzeit ist sie Vorsitzende der Foreign Press Association in London.
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"Comprehensive, wide-ranging and journalistically rigorous. Attack of the 50Ft Women is an important and timely book. Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children" Sunday Express

'If you're male, and don't think you need to read this book, that's your received culture talking, and it isn't doing you a favour. If you're male or female, do yourself and the future a favour: read this book.' William Gibson

"Barnstorming" Red magazine

"An inspiring, revelatory and often hilarious journey to explore the merits of a gender-equal society" Glamour

"Empowering and full of hope, Attack of the 50ft Women made me feel 50ft tall. Glass ceilings beware." Sarah Shaffi, editor at The Bookseller and writer for Stylist

"Electricfying. Full of chutzpah, knowledge and vision." Elif Shafak

"Compelling and deeply researched... Presents the multiple benefits of a gender-balanced world" Lisa Randall, New York Times bestselling author of Warped Passages

"[Catherine Mayer] occupies a well-informed, fully-engaged middle ground [and] quickly gets to the main issue- endemic exploitation, "discrimination, harassment and sexual violence" perpetrated by men and boys against (overwhelmingly)
women and girls [...] provid[ing] concise, painful examples of perpetrators' seeming impunity even when charged for their crimes. [Attack of the Fifty Foot Women] is a weapons store for the battles ahead." Times Literary Supplement

'A tour de force of feminist polemic, forensic research drawing on data from across the globe and some fabulously funny anecdotes' Wales Online
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