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Disobedient Bodies

By: Emma Dabiri
Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
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An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next.

What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are often reductive, tyrannical and commercially entangled, imposed upon us by oppressive systems and further strengthened by our conditioned self-loathing.

This book encourages unruliness, exploring the ways in which we can rebel against and subvert the current system. Offering alternative ways of seeing beauty, drawing on other cultures, worldviews, times, and places, as well as looking beyond the capitalist model - to reconnect with our birth right and find the inherent joy in our disobedient bodies.

It accompanies The Cult of Beauty.

©2023 Emma Dabiri (P)2023 Profile Books Ltd Aesthetics Gender Studies Philosophy Social Sciences Capitalism

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A compelling fast listen taking us through why what we look like has become a rod for many women across hundreds of years, particularly in Western culture. Not depressing though, enlightening and inspiring. We can take the power back!

So many aha moments

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Given the subject and author, I expected to enjoy this book. I did not expect to be so utterly enraptured from beginning to end. The experience of reading, or rather hearing, this book is akin to being at an amazing party with all your best friends, and all their super interesting and funny friends, where the conversation flows and laughs aplenty. The book skips from hilarious nostalgia and familiar images of an Irish adolescence, to fascinating discourse on beauty, history, language and capitalism.

I learned so much and it really made me reflect on some of my choices and the reasons behind them. I loved the compassionate, non-preachy tone which priorities joy, solidarity and authenticity. The author’s voice perfectly brings to life the Irish-infused English and sparked in me the joy and pride I experienced when Derry Girls unapologetically spoke in their true accent and dialect, despite being on mainstream British TV.

Upon finishing this book, I flipped right back to the start to re-digest it. Not before sending the link to friends with a plea “I NEED to talk about this book. Please read ASAP!”

Will read this again and again

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I absolutely loved this book. A serious subject, but handled with humour and grace. Emma’s is a critically important voice for our time. And sounds like she’s a bit of craic too. A rare and precious combo. She reads her own work beautifully and her level of seriousness is right on the nose. Highly recommended!!!

Compulsory listening!

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I think that everyone should read/ listen to this book! It is written beautifully and explains concepts in a way that is easy to understand without being oversimplified

Inciteful and interesting while remaining accessible

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This was written like a bad undergraduate essay - just a list of things without any interesting throughline or point being made. Everything in it I've head before in books like Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino. It was a totally witless and dry account of a fascinating subject matter.

Incredibly basic and boring

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