Interventions for Women

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By Angela Hume

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Interventions for Women is a poetry collection by Angela Hume that confronts the cultural pressures imposed on women and girls. Through candid verse, Hume explores the complexities of womanhood, challenging the societal expectations to conform, smile, and stay quiet. These poems invite readers to reflect on the systemic norms that shape female experiences and question their own roles within these structures.
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Ideal for readers interested in feminist literature, contemporary poetry, and social critique, this book resonates with those seeking honest reflections on gender, identity, and societal change.

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Poems that address cultural pressures placed on women and girls.

Interventions for Women 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 behaviour would make everything better.

The poems address rigid social norms and, ultimately, walk through the uncomfortable realisations about the bigger systems at play and call on us to examine our own complicity in them.

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Craig Santos Perez praises this collection as a profoundly intimate work that links women’s physical experiences with broader issues such as sexual violence, environmental harm, and social injustice. The poems balance difficult subjects with acts of tenderness and courage, ultimately affirming the resilience and singularity of the body.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781632430960

Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 October 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Omnidawn Publishing

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 226g

Pages: 136

Collections

Angela Hume Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Angela Hume is the author of Middle Time, also published by Omnidawn. Their chapbooks include Meat Habitats, Melos, The Middle, and Second Story of Your Body. With Gillian Osborne, they coedited Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field.