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The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide To The Media (2014)

by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

144816172X (ISBN13: 9781448161720)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Vintage Digital

review 1: Growing up on a diet of girls' and women's magazines, the authors suddenly realised the message they were sending one half of the population. They use this book to look at how the media presents women/girls in various formats and how this translates into how both sexes view their place in the world. This was written in a relaxed tone, almost as if they're chatting to a group of people in the pub. Other reviewers have said this book is a little condescending at times but I just found it 'young' and I think it's to do with the authors being young women and this being their target audience. No matter your age, I think everyone can take something away from reading this book.
review 2: I am really wanting to like this book, however, I'm struggling. Lots of great sen... moretiments but the tone is pretty patronising. The agency is completely removed from the individual and I am left feeling like an idiot just because I sometimes read Glamour and Grazia. Do the authors really think that any one who ever picks up a woman's mag automatically feels compelled to run out and get botox to please 'their man'?!? I read these magazines as a bit of light relief particularly on long train journeys. To be honest they lost me at the bit where they compared a tired shopper to a veteran from 'Nam'. I identify myself as a feminist unequivocally but I'm going to struggle to finish this book. less

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