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SUMMARY:The Feminist Book Club with Kate Feld
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends are delighted to announce that we are hosting the Feminist Book Club with facilitator Kate Feld. Taking place monthly\, this will be a space for people of all genders to discuss feminist books. In September we will be discussing Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach. The discussion will focus on the introduction and ‘Book One: The Anti-Diet Guide’ from the 2016 edition. \nTickets\nBook and ticket: £10.99\nTicket only: £3 \nAs always\, there are a limited amount of complimentary tickets available for those who need them. Please contact us directly at bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597 365380. \nAbout the book \nSusie Orbach’s seminal work\, now established as a worldwide classic\, shows how fat is not about food\, but rather about politics\, defiance\, protection\, sex\, strength\, assertion\, anger\, love. \nWhen it was first published\, Fat Is A Feminist Issue became an instant classic and it is as relevant today as it was then. Reflecting on our increasingly diet and body-obsessed society\, Susie Orbach’s new introduction explains how generations of women and girls are growing up absorbing the eating anxieties around them. In an age where women want to be sexy\, nurturing\, domestic goddesses\, confident at work\, and feminine too\, the twenty-first-century woman is poorly armed for survival. Never before has the Fat Is A Feminist Issue revolution been more in need of revival. \nExploring our love/hate relationship with food\, Susie Orbach describes how fat is about so much more than food. It is a response to our social situation; the way we are seen by others and ourselves. Too often food is a source of anguish\, as are our bodies. But Fat Is A Feminist Issue discusses how we can turn food into a friend and find ways to accept ourselves for who and how we are. Following the step-by-step guide\, and you too can put an end to food anxieties and dieting. \nAbout the author \nSusie Orbach is a British psychotherapist\, psychoanalyst\, writer and social critic. Her first book\, Fat is a Feminist Issue\, analysed the psychology of dieting and over-eating in women\, and she has campaigned against media pressure on girls to feel dissatisfied with their physical appearance. She co-founded the Women’s Therapy Centre and Antidote\, the organisation promoting emotional literacy and is a visiting Professor at the LSE. She has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organisations. Her numerous works include Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978)\, Hunger Strike (1986)\, The Impossibility of Sex (1999)\, and On Eating (2002).
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SUMMARY:The Book Club – Monday\, 23rd September 7-8pm *ONLINE*
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Monday 23rd September via Zoom. This month\, we are reading The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi – £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge. You can buy a book and ticket here. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne of our booksellers will lead the book club\, and the group will be split up into smaller groups in breakout rooms to discuss the questions. A Zoom link will be emailed to ticketholders prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the book \nWelcome to The Centre. The cost may be high\, but you’ll never be the same . . . \nAnisa Ellahi longs to become a translator of ‘great works of literature’\, but right now she is stuck in her London flat writing subtitles for Bollywood films. \nThen she is told about the Centre\, an elite\, invite-only programme that guarantees complete fluency in any language in just ten days. Seduced by all that it could make possible\, Anisa enrols. But the Centre’s services come at a disturbing hidden cost. Still – it’s worth it\, right? After all\, success comes at a price . . . \nBy turns dark\, funny and surreal\, The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi takes the reader on a journey through Karachi\, London and New Delhi. Throughout it interrogates the sticky politics of language\, translation and appropriation and asks: what price would you be willing to pay for success?
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SUMMARY:The Book Club – Wednesday\, 25th September 6pm - 7pm
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Wednesday 25th September. This month\, we are reading The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi – £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge. You can buy a book and ticket here. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nAbout the book \nWelcome to The Centre. The cost may be high\, but you’ll never be the same . . . \nAnisa Ellahi longs to become a translator of ‘great works of literature’\, but right now she is stuck in her London flat writing subtitles for Bollywood films. \nThen she is told about the Centre\, an elite\, invite-only programme that guarantees complete fluency in any language in just ten days. Seduced by all that it could make possible\, Anisa enrols. But the Centre’s services come at a disturbing hidden cost. Still – it’s worth it\, right? After all\, success comes at a price . . . \nBy turns dark\, funny and surreal\, The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi takes the reader on a journey through Karachi\, London and New Delhi. Throughout it interrogates the sticky politics of language\, translation and appropriation and asks: what price would you be willing to pay for success?
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SUMMARY:The Book Club – Thursday\, 26th September 2pm - 3pm
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday 26th September. This month\, we are reading The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi – £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge. You can buy a book and ticket here. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nAbout the book \nWelcome to The Centre. The cost may be high\, but you’ll never be the same . . . \nAnisa Ellahi longs to become a translator of ‘great works of literature’\, but right now she is stuck in her London flat writing subtitles for Bollywood films. \nThen she is told about the Centre\, an elite\, invite-only programme that guarantees complete fluency in any language in just ten days. Seduced by all that it could make possible\, Anisa enrols. But the Centre’s services come at a disturbing hidden cost. Still – it’s worth it\, right? After all\, success comes at a price . . . \nBy turns dark\, funny and surreal\, The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi takes the reader on a journey through Karachi\, London and New Delhi. Throughout it interrogates the sticky politics of language\, translation and appropriation and asks: what price would you be willing to pay for success?
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