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  • Published: 1 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9781784700430
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $42.00

The Vagenda

A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media




'A brilliant exposé of women's mags and marketing - laugh-out-loud' Jeanette Winterson

HAVE YOU EVER…

Obsessed over your body’s ‘problem areas’?

Killed an hour on the Sidebar of Shame?

Wondered whether to try ‘50 Sex Tips to Please Your Man’?

Felt worse after doing any of the above?

Holly and Rhiannon grew up reading glossy mags and, like most women, thought of them as just a bit of fun. But over time they started to feel uneasy – not just about magazines, but about music videos, page 3, and women being labelled frigid, princesses or tramps.

So, following the amazing success of their Vagenda blog, they wrote this book. Welcome to your indispensable guide to the madness of women’s media.

  • Published: 1 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9781784700430
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $42.00

About the authors

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett won the 2011 Guardian Student Media award for columnist of the year. She co-founded and edits the feminist blog the Vagenda.

Holly Baxter

Holly Baxter is co-founder and editor of the Vagenda blog. She is also a regular contributor to the Guardian, the New Statesman, a freelance journalist, and previous resident of an airing cupboard.

Praise for The Vagenda

Angry, opinionated and also waspishly funny. The Vagenda deserves to be a bestseller. Because it's worth it

Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller

This is great: warm, witty and wise – an antidote to all of the usual nonsense

Jenny Eclair

Written with energy ... full of droll asides

Zoe Williams, Guardian

[Cosslett and Baxter] quickly and expertly show how pervasive sexist attitudes towards women still are today, and, indeed, how much worse they seem to have become in the last few years

Lesley McDowell, Herald

A great read for women of all ages

Claire Heal, Sunday Express

Interesting and well-researched

UK Press Syndication

A brilliant expose of women's mags and marketing – laugh-out-loud and painfully funny. This gives me hope for women and for feminism and for fun

Jeanette Winterson, Guardian

Essential reading for every woman, young and grown-up – a guidebook for reading between the lines…A real romp!

Jo Brand

It has a much-needed freshness and energy

Lesley McDowell, Glasgow Sunday Herald

This is great: warm, witty and wise – an antidote to all of the usual nonsense

Jenny Eclair

Written with energy ... full of droll asides

Guardian

[Cosslett and Baxter] quickly and expertly show how pervasive sexist attitudes towards women still are today, and, indeed, how much worse they seem to have become in the last few years

Herald