Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

by Sara Pascoe

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Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML: Take a funny and illuminating tour of the female body with award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe. Women have so much going on, what with boobs and jealousy and menstruating and broodiness and sex and infidelity and pubes and wombs and jobs and memories and emotions and the past and the future and themselves and each other. Here's a book that deals with all of it. Sara Pascoe has joked about feminity and sexuality on stage and screen but now she has a book to talk about it all for a bit longer. Animal combines autobiography and evolutionary history to create a funny, fascinating insight into the forces that mould and affect modern women.Read for you by the author, Animal is entertaining and informative, personal and universal�??silly about lots of things and serious about some. It's a laugh-out-loud investigation to help us understand and forgive our animal urges and insecurities.… (more)

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Septima | Aug 21, 2021 |

Pascoe takes her stand-up comedy delivery and translates it seamlessly into a book that is part autobiography and part exploration of the role of women (and women's bodies) in western society. Informative and very funny at times. Some sections are written more cumbersomely, and occasionally rely on spurious research, but her thought process and humour improve these sections, and the last chapter on rape is an excellent summary for the book. (

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ephemeral_future | Aug 20, 2020 |

Funny & informative, sometimes shocking (I won’t unfortunately forget in a hurry the dreadful experiments carried out on some slave women).

Sara explores issues facing women, and also bravely & astonishingly, charmingly honest, shares very personal info from her own experiences. An amusing and reassuring read. (

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LARA335 | May 16, 2019 |

I bought this to read before seeing Pascoe on tour, neither book nor talk disappointed.
Pascoe takes us on a journey of a female body with a mix of facts, observations and autobiographical details. I enjoyed the style, while there are many laugh out loud moments, Pascoe does not pull her punches when talking about tough issues women face. I connected even more with the book as Pascoe is the same age as me, so I could relate to many of the references. Pascoe covered a lot of the issues that my friends and I discuss a lot, from abortion to having children, from endemic sexism and our growing confidence in calling people out on it.
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soffitta1 | Mar 11, 2017 |

I greatly enjoyed this book. Pascoe combines factual information with stories from her own life to discuss the themes of Love, Body and Consent. It is often very funny, sometimes surprising in a "Whew, good thing I'm not reading this on the bus" kind of way, and quick to read. I also liked that she included further reading at the end and a list of organizations one can support if one wishes to help with the various social issues discussed in the book. (

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rabbitprincess | Nov 13, 2016 |

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For Rosa, Hollie, Violet and all the other flowers.

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Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:

Take a funny and illuminating tour of the female body with award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe. Women have so much going on, what with boobs and jealousy and menstruating and broodiness and sex and infidelity and pubes and wombs and jobs and memories and emotions and the past and the future and themselves and each other. Here's a book that deals with all of it. Sara Pascoe has joked about feminity and sexuality on stage and screen but now she has a book to talk about it all for a bit longer. Animal combines autobiography and evolutionary history to create a funny, fascinating insight into the forces that mould and affect modern women.Read for you by the author, Animal is entertaining and informative, personal and universal�??silly about lots of things and serious about some. It's a laugh-out-loud investigation to help us understand and forgive our animal urges and insecurities.

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