Recommending this book to everyone I know – who will all see a little of themselves written in these pages. AHP provides a witty and compelling examination of the boundaries society sets for women and the ~brave souls~ who dare to break them. I often found myself between a YAS and an UGH within the span of paragraphs.

A breezy but thoughtful collection of pop culture essays. Lena Dunham, Serena Williams, and Hillary Clinton are just a few of the celebrities that highlight the damned if you do/don't expectations society places on these women. Recommended.

Liberal, academic critique of the way women are perceived and consumed in American society.

I selected a couple of chapters of this book to read, based on what and who I wanted to read more about. By the end of the final chapter I had chosen, I was glad to be done with it. Parts of this books were interesting but it was mostly a repetitive buzzfeed style article which I feel I could have got online rather than buying the kindle book.

REALLY REALLY GOOD. 4.5 stars. “Because unruliness isn’t a single, easily disavowed decision, or an article of clothing one can take off and discard with the season. It’s an attitude shared by so many women of history, so many women of this book, and so many others reading it: a hope that someday, the only rules a woman will have to abide by are those she sets for herself.” I loved the chapters on Serena Williams, Hillary Clinton and Jennifer Weiner. They were enlightening and assertive. The whole book was. - The chapter TOO STRONG, on Serena Williams is great, I've been a fan of her since I was 10. I started playing tennis from a very young age and the author's view on the sport really opened my eyes to some matters. - Hillary’s chapter - WOW! “Matriarchy isn’t the fear. Rather, it’s the idea that women will define their own value, and their own futures, on their own terms instead of by terms men have laid out—put differently, that each gender, and each individual, will have the power to determine their own destiny. To slightly modify the old bumper sticker, it’s the radical notion that both men and women are people” - The chapter TOO LOUD is very enlightening about the gender discrimination within the literary world.