Too
Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
by Rachel Vorona Cote
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Lacing
cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, "TOO
MUCH spills over: with intellect, with sparkling prose, and with the brainy arguments
of Vorona Cote, who posits that women are all, in some way or another, still
susceptible to being called too much." (Esmé Weijun Wang)
A weeping woman is a monster.
So too is a fat woman, a horny woman, a woman shrieking with laughter. Women
who are one or more of these things have heard, or perhaps simply intuited,
that we are repugnantly excessive, that we have taken illicit liberties to feel
or fuck or eat with abandon. After bellowing like a barn animal in orgasm,
hoovering a plate of mashed potatoes, or spraying out spit in the heat of
expostulation, we've flinched-ugh, that was so gross. I am so gross. On rare
occasions, we might revel in our excess--belting out anthems with our friends
over karaoke, perhaps--but in the company of less sympathetic souls, our
uncertainty always returns. A woman who is Too Much is a woman who reacts to
the world with ardent intensity is a woman familiar to lashes of shame and
disapproval, from within as well as without.
Written in the tradition of
Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex Object and other frank books about the female gaze, TOO
MUCH encourages women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses-emotional,
physical, and spiritual. Rachel Vorona Cote braids cultural criticism, theory,
and storytelling together in her exploration of how culture grinds away our
bodies, souls, and sexualities, forcing us into smaller lives than we desire.
An erstwhile Victorian scholar, she sees many parallels between that era's
fixation on women's "hysterical" behavior and our modern policing of
the same; in the space of her writing, you're as likely to encounter Jane Eyre
and Lizzie Bennet as you are Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey.
This book will tell the story
of how women, from then and now, have learned to draw power from their
reservoirs of feeling, all that makes us "Too Much."
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File Size :
875 KB
Print Length : 353 pages
Publisher :
Grand Central Publishing; 01 edition (February 25, 2020)
Publication Date : February 25,
2020
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Language : English
ASIN : B07RHTRPP6
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