The Guilty Feminist

Published in 2018
336 pages

epub


Deborah Frances-White is a stand-up comedian and the host of the hit podcast The Guilty Feminist, which has had sixty million downloads in three years. She regularly appears on television in the UK and has her own BBC Radio 4 series, Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice, which won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy. An official ambassador for Amnesty International, she lives in London.

What is this book about?
In 2015 I described myself as ‘guilty feminist’ for the first time. My goals were noble but my concerns were trivial. I desperately wanted to close the pay gap, but I also wanted to look good sitting down naked.

From inclusion to the secret autonomy in rom-coms, from effective activism to what poker can tell us about power structures, Deborah explores what it means to be a twenty-first-century feminist, and encourages us to make the world better for everyone.

The book also includes exclusive interviews with performers, activists and thinkers – Jessamyn Stanley, Zoe Coombs Marr, Susan Wokoma, Bisha K. Ali, Reubs Walsh, Becca Bunce, Amika George, Mo Mansfied and Leyla Hussein – plus a piece from Hannah Gadsby.