Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman Paperback – August 7, 2018

Listen, I'd follow Anne Helen Petersen into battle. I just finished Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud and I'm left with a lot. In a good way! AHP has ten sections of various women who are "too" something and breaks down their work and ultimately the pendulum swing reaction for daring to be unruly. The text is wonderful at framing things in a larger context and pulling from rich sources. I closed the book with a new sense of challenging myself and how I evaluate the work and existence of other women. I was able to forgive myself for things and forgive other women too. Things are weird now but I found some peace here. I think this is an essential read and part of creating a springboard for more. Anyways as always follow Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style on Facebook for more of AHP'S work and a fantastic community of voices examining pop culture.

I enjoyed this book very much, though I would have liked to have seen a brief survey of the Botox Brigade (Cher, Dolly Parton) along with the section on Madonna. I would also have liked to see something about Brianna Wu--who got death threats for simply thinking that video games should have more realistic women (one such person showed up in her home town with a rope and an axe in his trunk, the local sheriff was not amused). Video games are a more important part of popular culture than the author thinks, at least as important as who gets reviewed in the NY Review of Books. A quick look at E.L. James (Fifty Shades etc.) might have been a good look about the changing face of publishing and how Unlikely People can break through. But perhaps those will be articles for a companion volume. For what was there, though, this was excellent.

Very empowering

Easy read. Kinda boring toward the end.

Absolutely delightful. I had high hopes for anything by Anne Helen Petersen, but the surpass my expectations. Anne has a way of challenging my feminism in ways I was unprepared for. Each chapter is a beautifully and thoughtfully written essay on a different woman in the public sphere who dares to step outside the line. I found myself pondering each woman individually and wondering how each one related to my own life. My mind changed on some, expanded on others, and read this book so voraciously I wish it was three times as long just so I could spend more time with it. If you're looking for an engrossing, modern look at the Modern Woman, look no further.

AHP's thought-provoking deep dives into culture and fame never fail to entertain and educate me--I am such a fan of her style of journalism and scholarship. Society's treatment of unruly women is a perfect subject for this writer to tackle. In the wake of the most recent election, I had no idea how much I truly needed this book to help me process and articulate so much of my own heartbroken feelings about the ingrained misogyny in our culture. I found it to be beautifully and thoroughly researched (wow), illuminating and fortifying--like a long, juicy, animated chat with your smartest and most fun friend.

I may have purchased this book with an eye to confirming my own convictions, but, instead, it made me reconsider my reactions to women both famous and not famous. Of course, I may need to pull this book out now and again to remind myself not to be a judgmental twerp, but that's fine because this book is eminently readable and interesting.

Anne Helen Petersen is an amazing academic and writer who makes very sophisticated ideas very easy to understand without dumbing them down. She makes it seem so easy to write so persuasively about how gender and celebrity functions in the US.This book flows super quick, and you don't have to read the chapters in order. Great nighttime reading. My favorites were the Kim Kardashian (Too Pregnant), and Nicky Minaj (Too Slutty) chapters.

Achei uma recomendação desse livro no Pinterest e me interessei logo pelo título. Não me arrependo nem um pouco. Nós, mulheres, precisamos perceber que muitas vezes o problema não é necessariamente conosco, e sim com sistemas criados e lapidados historicamente para nos calar e oprimir. Mesmo que falhemos várias vezes, como mostrado no livro, precisamos nos atrever a tentar. Com certeza recomendarei às minhas amigas.

Este libro presenta principalmente a 10 mujeres en el contexto de un adjetivo: Serena Williams es too strong, Melissa McCarthy es too fat, Abi Jacobson e Ilana Glazer son too gross, Nicki Minaj es too slutty, Madonna es too old, Kim Kardashian es too pregnant, Hillary Clinton es too shrill, Caitlyn Jenner es too queer, Jennifer Weiner es too loud y Lena Dunham es too naked.La autora expone cómo esas mujeres fueron enmarcadas en el adjetivo mencionado y cómo lucharon para salir de ese marco. Menciona cómo algunas de ellas fueron pioneras en algunos aspectos del feminismo en la cultura pop. Acepta sus errores e incongruencias, no las retrata como perfectas, pero sí hace mucho énfasis en sus aportaciones a un cambio de perspectiva en algunos ámbitos; por ejemplo, las aportaciones vanguardistas de Madonna en la música pop.La prosa es sumamente entretenida y el libro está impecablemente investigado. No sé si primero eligió a las mujeres y después a sus adjetivos, o al revés, pero todo funciona a la perfección. Las analiza desde una perspectiva interseccional del feminismo, lo cual lo hace más interesante y multidimensional. Este libro es valiosísimo.

One of the best books I've read on celebrity gossip culture and intersectional feminism. Whether or not you like any of the women discussed in the book is besides the point. Each chapter offers a unique analysis of the significant relevance all these women have, and how their respective unruliness is challenging what it means to be successful woman.

Very interesting, well written and perfectly timed with the issues currently in the news. The book is easy to dip into for a chapter or two and give you opinions to think about. My one struggle was a few of the women discussed I didnt have a great deal of prior knowledge of (for example Ilana Glazer from Broad City), but this was because most (if not all) of the women featured are American and I just haven’t read too much on them. But after I finished the book, I watched/read up on particular women featured and then re-read the chapters.Highly recommend.

I'm constantly amazed by and envious of the way AHP's seemingly effortless writing is able to articulate complex ideas and at the same time show the enormous amount of research that must have been required to write this book. Would definitely recommend!