SNOW PHILIPPA – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it Libreria Genova libri inglesi spagnoli francesi tedeschi cinesi giapponesi piccolo principe books Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:08:58 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.globolibri.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-LOGO-1-32x32.png SNOW PHILIPPA – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it 32 32 It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me https://www.globolibri.it/negozio/libri-inglese/arte-cultura-societa-storia-viaggi-in-inglese/its-terrible-the-things-i-have-to-do-to-be-me-9780349017716/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:08:57 +0000 https://www.globolibri.it/?post_type=product&p=22534 How does an icon become an icon? How did Anna Nicole Smith model herself on Marilyn Monroe? What connects Lindsay Lohan with Elizabeth Taylor? How is self-made beauty Pamela Anderson like trans bond girl Caroline ‘Tula’ Cossey?In a series of interconnected essays about pairs of famous women, award-nominated essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars and lays bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity – from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era.

Full of the fascinating, entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous celebrities, dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish, flamboyant prose, Philippa Snow’s first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.

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