Sara Pascoe signs book deal for Animal: How a Woman is Made
Publishing house Faber & Faber has announced that it will publish a book by stand-up comedian Sara Pascoe.
The popular comic will pen her first book for the company, to be called Animal: How a Woman is Made.
Publishers say: "Sara is a comedian who has talked and joked about female sexuality, psychology and the media's portrayal of women on stage and screen. While researching her most recent live show, Sara realised that she had a lot more to say.
"In her first book Sara combines autobiography and evolutionary history to entertain and inform about the female body. Why we have boobs and how they have become so fetishised. How the kidnap of a 13-year old-chimney sweep's daughter created our present age of consent. The discovery and subsequent forgetting of the clitoris, the many eras of misunderstanding the female orgasm.
"Did you know that clitorectomys were once performed on British and American women to cure masturbation and hysteria? And that we learned so much about female sexuality from the behaviour of sperm?
"Animal will be entertaining and informative and personal and universal and silly about lots of things and serious about some."
Sara introduces the book in the following video:
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
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 femininity 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.
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.
First published: Thursday 21st April 2016
- Publisher: Faber And Faber
- Catalogue: 9780571325221
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