Woman Beware Woman
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In Woman Beware Woman, Emma Tennant crafts a razor-sharp feminist fable that dissects the precarious social fabric binding women together — and tearing them apart. Set against the claustrophobic backdrop of contemporary British society, the novel chronicles the lives of women navigating treacherous relationships defined by jealousy, complicity, and betrayal, drawing its provocative title from Thomas Middleton's 17th-century tragedy to underscore how little, Tennant argues, has changed in the dynamics of female oppression. Tennant writes with a cool, surgical wit that is equal parts darkly comic and deeply unsettling, illuminating the insidious ways in which patriarchal structures turn women against one another rather than fostering solidarity. A significant voice in the British feminist literary movement of the 1970s and 1980s, she illustrates how the personal is inescapably political, weaving Gothic undertones into a narrative that feels at once timeless and urgently contemporary. For readers who dare to look unflinchingly at the power structures hidden within everyday life, this is a work that will not easily be forgotten.
Author: Emma Tennant
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In Woman Beware Woman, Emma Tennant crafts a razor-sharp feminist fable that dissects the precarious social fabric binding women together — and tearing them apart. Set against the claustrophobic backdrop of contemporary British society, the novel chronicles the lives of women navigating treacherous relationships defined by jealousy, complicity, and betrayal, drawing its provocative title from Thomas Middleton's 17th-century tragedy to underscore how little, Tennant argues, has changed in the dynamics of female oppression. Tennant writes with a cool, surgical wit that is equal parts darkly comic and deeply unsettling, illuminating the insidious ways in which patriarchal structures turn women against one another rather than fostering solidarity. A significant voice in the British feminist literary movement of the 1970s and 1980s, she illustrates how the personal is inescapably political, weaving Gothic undertones into a narrative that feels at once timeless and urgently contemporary. For readers who dare to look unflinchingly at the power structures hidden within everyday life, this is a work that will not easily be forgotten.