{"product_id":"girl-1","title":"Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Dancer Aged Fourteen\u003c\/i\u003e, a deeply personal and insightful account of being a girl, woman, and mother in a world that sees the feminine as less than.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in 1959 to a middle-class family, Laurence Barraqué grows up with her sister in the northern city of Rouen. Her father is a doctor, her mother a housewife. She understands from an early age, by way of language and her parents' example, that a girl's place in life is inferior to a boy's: Asked for the 1964 census whether he has any children, her father promptly responds, \"No. I have two daughters.\" When Laurence eventually becomes a mother herself in the nineties, she grapples with the question of what it means to be a girl, to have a girl, and what lessons she should try to pass down or undo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMasterful in her analysis of the subtle and obvious ways women are undermined by a sexist society, Camille Laurens lays out her experiences of the past forty years in this poignant, powerful book. \u003ci\u003eGirl \u003c\/i\u003eis at once intimate and sweeping in its depiction of the great challenges we face, such as equalizing the education system and transmitting feminist values to the younger generations.","brand":"Other Press (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48124086943933,"sku":"BS-TC0-421019","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781635421019-HD.jpg?v=1787098192","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/girl-1","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}