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An actress is nothing without a meaty part. Edit Details Official Sites: Edit Did You Know? According to the DVD commentary, the clerk forgot to take it off and they were short for time on the shoot. Mar 14, Louise O'Neill rated it it was amazing. I really enjoyed this book. It's an intelligent, academic look at gender politics but accessible enough for those wanting an introduction to feminist theory.

Mar 24, Catarina de Carvalho rated it really liked it Shelves: This is free on Goodreads so please pick it up! It's a great work about feminism. View all 5 comments. May 02, Linda rated it it was amazing Shelves: This was such an inspiring read. There is not so much new information or theories, but Emer O'Toole writes about it in a way that is both funny and awakes irritating feelings. Being a woman is an act of performance, according to her. Most people act according to their gender, without really questioning it. What if you would be more happy acting in another way?

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The author has experimented with gender roles and writes about her experiences. She began with dressing lik This was such an inspiring read. She began with dressing like a man on Halloween and then stopped shaving. Somehow, hair is very political if you are being a woman and it is not on your head. Of course, there are more important questions than hair in feminism, but it shows how a seemingly trifling detail can be so loaded.

The author explains that women have learned to please everyone. They claim they choose to not leave the house without make-up, to spend much money on grooming, to always do the housework and to take care of the children.

They like to please men, and there is nothing wrong with that, but it is not creating equality. They sure are getting rewarded for it, but only when they follow the rules. And, through this process of commercialisation, the taboo is reaffirmed, making it even more difficult for women to have the same bodily freedom as men. Dividing people into two categories is wrong when one of the categories is limited and treated worse than the other.

If gender roles was something you were born with, then nothing could change that. If it is so important to teach people to behave according to their gender, that proves it is not linked to a person's sex. I think it is very important that men talk to their sons, because it can't be only women that try to make the change. May 17, Nurai rated it it was amazing Shelves: I love this book so much.

Emer O'Toole writes a book that's incredibly funny, and easy to read, whilst at the same time making a case for her arguments in such an articulate way you can't but help to nod along enthousiastically the entire time which is what I did. It taught me a lot about gender and gender roles related to society. Nov 10, Varsha Ravi between. Such a witty, interesting and fascinating look at performances of gender. For a full length review check: Dec 25, Amy rated it really liked it Shelves: I think this shame stems from being told I am making a big deal out of something that doesn't really matter but I think equality is important as at th 'Girls can change the world with the ways they choose to be girls.

I think this shame stems from being told I am making a big deal out of something that doesn't really matter but I think equality is important as at the end of the day until we are all treated the same women are going to feel and be treated inadequately. Emer O'toole in Girls will be Girls has questioned gender roles and discussed her own personal experiences in regards to sexism, gender bending and her own romantic experiences with both men and women. My parents both worked full time but my mother was expected to have food on the table and to clean the house before he was home.

This is something that has baffled me since I was young, why does housework have to be women's work when women work just as hard as men?

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O'Toole explains that men have been socially conditioned to think cleaning the house is 'a woman's job' and that women are taught to be accepting and loving so keeping the house in order is seen to show this. The technical term for these people is gobshites. In today's society we should be open to breaking boundaries however society has taught us that certain acts are to be associated with a specific gender.

For example, a woman who can do DIY or a man who likes to pole dance. Women are told that they cannot do specific tasks as they are delicate or uneducated but this is not the case. For example, crying is seen as unmasculine and men are ridiculed when showing any emotion. Skirts are for women but having hair on those feminine legs? Oh that's a no go! O'Toole encourages the reader to break the rules, go out with hairy arm pits and a shaved head, why not! She explains that going outside societies box has freed her from gender norms and she doesn't have to go through a cruelling beauty regime to look more like a girl everyday like millions of others.

Non fiction isn't always my cup of tea as I need to be immersed with the topic to really get into it but Emer has this ability to weave personal experiences and educational facts into her writing beautifully. I loved reading about her Irish upbringing, her weird yet wonderful sexual experiences and how these have effected her as an individual. Feminism is a key overhead to the book yet I didn't find it overbearing, I think that Emer has given us an engaging account of how she became a feminist, how she is trying to spread her message to others and how we can switch up our socially engineered lives.

I seem to have some weird disease where I can't give memoirs 5 stars?! When I first saw this book I thought it might be an exception, as the cover art, title and topic are totally up my street. Upon starting, however, the narrative voice took me some getting used to. This book most definitely pushes you to think about and analyse pretty much everything you do. I had a little think about why Emer O'Toole's voice took me some time to connect with, coming to the conclusion that it was just such a st I seem to have some weird disease where I can't give memoirs 5 stars?! I had a little think about why Emer O'Toole's voice took me some time to connect with, coming to the conclusion that it was just such a strong and vibrant Emer O'Toole voice and I was still trying to apply myself to the goings on, which just wasn't working at first I also wasn't expecting the first chapter to be about eating disorders, with a specific calorie mention.

I'm in a fragile ED recovery place myself and this took me by surprise. The writer talks about their experience of anorexia with a humerous twist, and this wasn't exactly comfortable for me, as my experiences are still a bit raw. The reasons Emer gave for their experience of anorexia were different than the ones I give for my own. The writer sees their illness differently to how I see mine, and I found their explanation for it a little reductionist. Obviously this isn't a memoir about ED's and there is only so much you can say about such a complex illness in one chapter.

Having taken a university module in Gender Studies, I was already somewhat familiar with Judith Butler and the idea of gender as performative. Revisiting these concepts through Emer O'Toole's own experiences was really enjoyable, and I so wish this book had been around a couple of years ago when I was first trying to get my head around Butler and Queer Theory. As the book progressed, I really did find myself cementing my knowledge and gaining a deeper understanding of concepts about gender and feminism. I had seen Emer on 'This Morning' a few years ago, and didn't know this book was by the same person until I began reading it.

I remember my reaction to Emer's hairy-pits; a 'well that's their choice' reaction, but one that didn't result in an analysis of my own reasons for 'excessive' grooming. Mainly because I really didn't see my grooming rituals as excessive. It was expressed that the average female grooming routine is time consuming, and I remember sarcastically thinking 'it takes me all of about 2 seconds to shave under each arm, what would I possibly do with all that free time if I didn't shave', and blissfully settling back into my usual routine.

Having read Girls will be Girls , however, I am seriously questioning my 'choices' and actions. It has given me a lot of food for thought! Feb 02, Ana rated it it was amazing Shelves: I enjoyed taking my time with this book, actually annotating my copy with a red pen and a very pink highlighter the irony is not lost on me , thoughts and doodles all over the margins.

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It really motivated me to finally pick up Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader , an intimidating essay collection, much needed for my research. I was familiar with some of the texts and c A sort of self-assigned homework. I absolutely loved Girls Will Be Girls and I think everyone should read it or at least parts of it… It actually made me aware of my own biases and sexism, and one of the things that we have to understand and take from all this is the idea that women cannot band together to fight inequality before having first confronted their own sexist thinking , as well as the ways in which some women oppress others.

There are chapters on identity and gender, performance and perception, sex and sexuality, interspersed with autobiographical vignettes filled with humour and self-irony. Oh, and the fictional exchange of letters with Pierre Bourdieu was spot on! Nov 05, Sophie rated it it was amazing Shelves: It's very new for me to be thinking about feminism. For a long time I thought much of the progress had been made by our forbearers and that we women weren't having it that bad, so why complain?

Plus, the feminist movement doesn't have the best image or I had been shown a wrong image of what it is all about But some things started nagging at me and thanks to youtube in particular Jean Menzies' channel I started to add feminists books on my TBR. It's is actually Jean who pushed me to read Girls It's very new for me to be thinking about feminism. It's is actually Jean who pushed me to read Girls will be Girls in a excellent video giving 3 book recommendations about the impact of gender and I'm absolutely grateful to her for it!

Girls will be Girls is a highly informative and funny book that shows in an entertaining, but thought-provoking and non-aggressive way what's wrong with how gender identity is created and enforced by society today and has always been. She doesn't try to turn you into the perfect little feminist who doesn't shave although she doesn't and hates men she doesn't either , but states facts and researches all compiled in a great bibliography at the end , illustrates them with episodes of her own life often in a hilarious way and makes you think about how we contribute every day to these societal norms that ultimately bother most women if we think a little bit about them.

It is a book I recommend to all women, even and especially the sceptics. Men are also welcome to read it, I'm sure they would learn a lot about things involved in being a woman today they probably never thought about. May 12, Katy rated it liked it Shelves: This is a really hard book to review. I do like a good memoir, but this one didn't really 'open my mind' like the blurb claimed.

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It is essentially about Emer O'Toole's experience growing up in Ireland and how gender expectations affected her and how she became a feminist. None of the ideas in here were that unique to me. It was funny in places but ultimately I fo Originally posted here. It was funny in places but ultimately I found myself rolling my eyes. There is nothing new or revolutionary about dressing like a boy on occasion or not shaving your armpits, it's all been done before. I think this book is geared more towards feminist newbies who aren't really familiar with a lot of the basic feminist rhetoric.

As a memoir, it was fascinating to read about some of Emer's experiences with sexism and gender stereotypes in Irish culture. She does have a a few good points about the fluidity of gender and sexuality. I think Emer's hope for a genderless society where everyone is treated completely equally is a nice idea but I'm not sure all women would want that. I'm more geared towards liberation myself rather than strict equality.

Regardless of my personal opinions, I can't deny this is a fascinating look at an individual's experiences with feminism and gender politics. It's not exactly the same to my own experiences and that is great as it showed me a new perspective. Apr 03, Elli The Bibliophile rated it really liked it Shelves: One of my friends took a class with Emer O'Toole last year and subsequently bought and read this book.

She lent me her copy and I'm so happy I read it! This book is the perfect mix of conversational and serious. The tone of the whole book made the book very easy to read, but the subject was well thought-out. I liked the balance between stories from O'Toole's personal life, and the insights from various philosophers and feminist theorists. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in gender str One of my friends took a class with Emer O'Toole last year and subsequently bought and read this book.

I highly recommend this to anyone interested in gender structures and feminist theory! Dec 17, Sam rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is a humorous and enlightening read that addresses one of the biggest debating points in feminism, that of appearance and grooming. Do you quit all the girly stuff to show your disillustionment of the patriachrial system where women are meant to look pretty or do you still embrace the lippy because you love it so?

While I'm not the most girly of female I do like getting my hair dyed with bright sections of ever changing colour and I do get my nails done I have a nail biting habit But O'Toole provides the arguements and reasons why you still can do these things and still be a feminist, you just do what is comfortable for you and think about why its comfortable make sure it really is for you. On top of that she has given me the confidence to shop in the 'men's' sections where I tend to see things I like but never bought before which in itself is odd since I already wear some men's clothes for sports and site work, never occurred to me before.

Each section is clearly written and easy to follow without being patronising or condescending and O'Toole uses her own experiences to support the arguements she presents as well other opinions and research. A very interesting read, a copy of which my niece will be receiving if she begins to fall into the trap of 'I must be girly' just so she knows there are alternatives, lots and lots of alternatives.

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Jun 29, Lizzy O'shea rated it liked it. I would be very interested to see what others think after reading this, because I can't see any other reviews that flag this issue. Aug 06, Marie Andrews rated it really liked it Shelves: Review to come shortly Mar 23, Ruth Bygrave rated it it was amazing. I love this book passionately, both the humour and the politics. Who wouldn't warm to a book with an open love-letter to a dead French sociologist!

I never got into performing 'girl', largely for reasons to do with Asperger Syndrome and mild physical disability. It all seemed like a lot of hard work, and a lot of hard work I didn't take to. I let it happen to other people, although I was disappointed not to have childhood friends until I was about sixteen, a lot of which was probably down to not I love this book passionately, both the humour and the politics. I let it happen to other people, although I was disappointed not to have childhood friends until I was about sixteen, a lot of which was probably down to not knowing how to get on with people except on my own terms.

Not that I was masculine. I've always known that my feelings about feminine narcissism which is what I call this obsession with one's own body and what to put in or on it are usually negative, and I get irritated when there appears to be so much consensus on it. Intrigued by the book title "Bad Feminist" I was annoyed it was just another account of us all liking make up and were we allowed by the feminist police? I suspect that this is why I take to Emer's book so passionately: Although I feel strange about how much of a big deal shaving is: I love the descriptions of how to quietly change things, although I'm surprised at quite how much vitriol Emer attracted simply by being visibly and publicly unshaven.

The details noted quite accurately in this book of quite how big a deal gender is have always mystified me. Why should it be the first thing we find out about a baby and then immediately start dressing and treating them differently? Why is it so important to make sure a little girl knows she's 'beautiful' when she's two or three or make a fuss about a little boy crying at the same age? Why do mothers sometimes look with absolute horror on a boy picking up a pink toy? Why not just let kids grow into who they are more slowly and less prescriptively. I'd have hated a standard 'boy's' or 'girl's' present throughout my childhood, and have only shown much interest in books before that in toy animals which I could play with and do the voices.

I also love the descriptions of subversive sexual identity. I saw the other side of this also on xojane, where people daring to say they identified as demisexual influenced primarily by emotional bonds rather than immediate attraction or sapiosexual largely attracted to intelligence, which is something I understand quite well were subjected to hatred, contempt and ridicule in the comments section because of course gay and straight were real, but anything else was just 'putting it on for attention'.

In fact, 'gay' being considered real and an identity had to be fought for. The beginning of gay identity politics was probably the medical model on sexual inversion in the late nineteenth century, which was sort-of about homosexuality except that a lot of the descriptions mollyhouses in the nineteenth century, Radcliffe Hall living like a man sound a bit more trans nowadays. It was also considered an illness, until the people who fought bravely for it managed to claw it out of the DSM and into the non-pathologised world.

I find it comfortable to think in terms of a spectrum where people can define their own desires rather than have them stuck into the gay-vs-straight 'box', so when I read those articles I found them perfectly unexceptionable, and I love the descriptions of Emer's queer identity as not primarily driven by masculinity in men or femininity in women--more to do with the person as a whole. I had some degree of fellow-feeling when the author was pulled-up on the early-naughties use of 'gay' as a pejorative--not because I ever got caught by that, but because I want people to be able to describe themselves with blunt words among themselves which now I think about it is very Aspie.

I always used to describe myself plainly as 'gimp' or 'spastic' simply because 'person with cerebral palsy' is a mouthful, and the history of 'spastic' being demonised in the UK is largely down to people using the word non-pejoratively until the people who wanted to use it as a playground slur changed the meaning. I don't want descriptives to get ever longer while trolls chase every simple description down.

I don't want the bullies to have the power by chasing us 'out of' our simple descriptive words with their hate, leaving us with the long periphrastic phrases to be 'politically-correct' which possibly only remain because the trolls can't spell them to make a slur out of them. I grew up with 'spastic' as a plain if inaccurate descriptive word.

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I hate it that I now get told I can't describe myself as 'spastic' a plain, blunt word because the bullies have won. It's not that I want to use the word all over the place, but I like people who have or are something to be able to reclaim it among themselves rather than have their usage driven by the haters. Anyway, hugs to Emer and delight that she's managed to domesticise her own brothers somewhat.

This is one of those times when I want to meet the author because she sounds such fun, and it's sad we're no longer on the same continent. Originally posted on Once Upon a Bookcase. For a while I've been thinking a lot about feminist issues and what my opinions are. I have also had a lot of feminist articles on my Twitter feed recently, but some of the issues that came up were things I'd never thought of, never considered.

I realised I should probably educate myself, and tweeted asking for recommendations of feminist books to help me become a better feminist. And what a brilliant book! O'Toole looks at gender as performance, albeit an unconscious one; how we dress and how we act within our gender roles, and how thinking consciously about the way we live in a patriarchal world and playing with our gender roles, we would not only make a statement and confront society's biases, but become happier in our selves.

O'Toole walks us through her path from an anorexic teenager wanting to be thin as society tells us thin and pretty is best, to a gender-bending woman who has grown out her body hair and will wear heels one day, and have a shaved the next, discussing psychology and theories on gender along the way. Unfortunately, I don't have quite the academic brain I would like. Complex concepts I find difficult to get my head around. So it took me a while to get through Girls Will Be Girls as I tried to understand what I was reading, and then form an opinion It's frustrating to me that I'm not the kind of person who can understand these things first time round, and a few times I would morosely think about putting the book down and giving it up as a lost cause, but this is a topic that is important to me, and I want to have my mind broadened, so I stuck at it.

Fortunately, O'Toole breaks down these concepts and theories pretty well, so rather than reading the book and thinking, "I don't have a clue what's being said here at all ," I would read certain paragraphs a few times over, and it would click. Yes, I would have to do this more times than I can count, but I have found that people at large tend to understand such things better than I do, generally, so the point is I finished Girls Will Be Girls understanding what the book was saying about gender performativity, schema, and so on, which is a great feat for O'Toole!