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A graceful stylist who casts a wide literary and geographical net, Zimmerman can make nearly anything interesting. Nearly every page, however, brings fresh insights into age-old myths or tragicomic observations on 21st-century womanhood. A sparkling and perceptive critique of ancient ideas that still hold women back. A fresh look at female-coded monsters from mythology offers insight about embracing characteristics that people fear. An engaging parsing that addresses the ways that sexism and misogyny constrain women, a provocative weaving of the personal and the political. Many readers will feel the truth of this book in their bones as Zimmerman dissects the mythologies that still constrain women. Every one of these essays is muscular and dangerous.