{"title":"Allison Yarrow","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"90s-bitch-book-allison-yarrow-9780062412348","title":"90s Bitch","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the Los Angeles Press Club Book Award, muse to a Givenchy fashion collection, and recommended by the The New York Times, The Skimm, US Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Refinery 29, Book Riot, Bitch Media, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Yarrow's biting autopsy of the decade scrutinizes the way society reduced -- or \"bitchified\" -- women at work, women at home, women in court, even women on ice skates . . . Direct quotes from politicians, journalists and comedians about the women provide the most jarring, oh-my-god-that-really-happened portions of Yarrow's decade excavation.\" -- Pittsburg Post-Gazette\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe nostalgic, smart, and shocking account of how the 90s set back feminism, undermined girls and women, and shaped the millennial generation from award-winning journalist, Allison Yarrow.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo understand how we got here, we have to rewind the VHS tape. 90s Bitch tells the real story of women and girls in the 1990s, exploring how they were maligned by the media, vilified by popular culture, and objectified in the marketplace. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrailblazing women like Hillary Clinton, Anita Hill, Madeleine Albright, Janet Reno, and Marcia Clark, and were undermined. Newsmakers like Britney Spears, Monica Lewinsky, Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbitt were shamed and misunderstood. The advent of the 24-hour news cycle reinforced society's deeply entrenched misogyny. Meanwhile, marketers hijacked feminism, sold \"Girl Power,\" and poisoned a generation. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToday echoes of 90s \"bitchification\" still exist everywhere we look. To understand why, we must revisit and interrogate the 1990s--a decade in which empowerment was twisted into objectification, exploitation, and subjugation. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYarrow's thoughtful, juicy, and timely examination is a must-read for anyone trying to understand 21st century sexism and end it for the next generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49504994328849,"sku":"GOR010271579","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49725650305297,"sku":"CIN0062412345VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49994394763537,"sku":"CIN0062412345G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50999064625425,"sku":"NIN9780062412348","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062412345.jpg?v=1751036344"},{"product_id":"birth-control-book-allison-yarrow-9781541619319","title":"Birth Control","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Supported by ample data and suffused with anger,\" an award-winning journalist \"convincingly recasts this country's maternal health care system as needlessly dehumanizing\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern medicine should make pregnancy and childbirth safer for all. But in \u003ci\u003eBirth Control\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning journalist Allison Yarrow reveals how women are controlled, traumatized, injured, and even killed because of the traditionalist practices of medical professionals and hospitals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEver since doctors stole control of birth from midwives in the 19th century, women have been steamrolled by a male-dominated medical establishment that has everyone convinced that birthing bodies are inherently flawed and that every pregnancy is a crisis that it alone can \"solve.\" Common medical practices and procedures violate human rights and the law, yet take place daily. Misogyny and racism, not scientific evidence and support, shape the overwhelming majority of America's four million annual births.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on extensive reporting, expert interviews, an original survey of 1,300 mothers, and her own personal experiences, Yarrow documents how modern maternal health care is insidiously, purposefully designed to take power from women to the detriment of their physical and mental health--not just during labor, but for years after. 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