{"product_id":"interventions-for-women-by-angela-hume-9781632430960","title":"Interventions for Women","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoems that address cultural pressures placed on women and girls.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInterventions for Women\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAngela 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461068439788,"sku":"9781632430960","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781632430960-interventions-for-women.jpg?v=1774957257","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/interventions-for-women-by-angela-hume-9781632430960","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}