Virginie Despentes

King Kong Theory

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‘I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and for all those guys who don’t want to be protectors, for those who would like to be but don’t know how, for those who are not ambitious, competitive, or well-endowed. Because this ideal of the seductive white woman constantly being waved under our noses — well, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t exist.’
Powerful, provocative and personal, King Kong Theoryis a candid account of how the author of Baise-moi came to be Virginie Despentes. Drawing from personal experience, Despentes shatters received ideas about rape and prostitution, and explodes common attitudes towards sex and gender. King Kong Theory is a manifesto for a new punk feminism, reissued here in a brilliant new translation by Frank Wynne.
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116 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
Translator
Frank Wynne
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  • Fernando Montenegro Sandovalhas quoted15 days ago
    To get by without approval, to wield power aggressively, with no simpering, no apologizing, because there aren’t many opponents prepared to congratulate you on thrashing them.
    Motherhood has become t
  • Fernando Montenegro Sandovalhas quoted15 days ago
    equivalent of Ikea for childcare, an equivalent of Microsoft for housework? The public sphere has remained resolutely ma
  • Fernando Montenegro Sandovalhas quoted15 days ago
    Shocking and profoundly revealing fact: the feminist revolution of the 1970s didn’t result in any restructuring of childcare arrangements. Nor in dealing with housework. Unpaid work = women’s work.
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