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(Un)kind

How 'Be Kind' Entrenches Sexism

Author: Victoria Smith  

(Un)kind
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(Un)kind explores how the 'be kind' commandment distorts human relationships and works out worst of all for women.

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(Un)kind explores how the 'be kind' commandment distorts human relationships and works out worst of all for women.

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A brilliantly witty and insightful analysis of how kindness culture is used against women.

Using the #JustBeKind trend of the 2020s as a starting point, (Un)kind explores how traditional beliefs about women's 'kind' nature have been repackaged for an age that remains dependent - socially, politically, economically - on female self-sacrifice while finding the concept outdated and essentialist.

Looking at the various guises under which kindness culture is sold to women and girls - from play to self-help, social justice activism to empowerment - Victoria Smith argues that the pressure on women and girls has not decreased, but instead been incorporated into the 'work' of feminism. (Un)kind analyses the way in which this phenomenon ultimately distorts relationships, harming not just those coerced into performing 'kindness work' but the supposed recipients of their services.

Kindness culture supports the backlash against feminism while claiming to represent feminism's - and women's - true nature. It is, at heart, unkind.

PRAISE FOR HAGS

'The greatest joy of Hags is its lively erudition . . . eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times

'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer

'Brilliantly witty, engaging and insightful' Scotsman

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About the Author

Victoria Smith is the author of Hags: the demonisation of middle-aged women. Her journalism appears in The Critic, the New Statesman and various other publications.

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Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group | Fleet
Published
6th February 2025
Pages
336
ISBN
9780349127149

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