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Everyday Sexism
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Laura Bates. London, UK: Simon & Schuster, 2014. ISBN-13: 978-1-471-13157-8. Price: £13.85. Pages: 384 (hardback)
The Everyday Sexism project is the brainchild of Laura Bates, a British writer, who developed a qualitative research project to chronicle the sexist incidents experienced by women worldwide. Triggered by her own experience of worsening events, Bates asked other people across the world to submit their own experiences of sexism to the website, or via social media, where the responses were collated by researchers from the University of London and published.
This book organises those experiences under common themes, expounded …