Interventions for Women (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781632430960)

Poems that address cultural pressures placed on women and girls.

This is a book for those who were raised to be girls and expected to become women, for those who were told they were too girly and not girly enough, and for those who were ogled, talked over, touched, fed, imagined, and indoctrinated in ways they didn't want. Angela Hume writes directly about the experience of womanhood, addressing the boundaries and pressures imposed from childhood on. She considers the persistent instructions to smile, be quiet, and act happy, all administered with the promise that this forced behavior would make everything better. The poems address rigid social norms and, ultimately, walk through the uncomfortable realizations about the bigger systems at play and call on us to examine our own complicity in them.


Author: Angela Hume
ISBN-10: 1632430967
ISBN-13: 9781632430960
Publisher: Omnidawn
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2021
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.47d