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The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic Paperback – Illustrated, 25 Oct. 2018

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    224 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    Seven Stories Press
  4. Publication date
    25 Oct. 2018
  5. Dimensions
    21.69 x 1.47 x 25.37 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1609809181
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1609809188
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"The gender wars of household chores." -- The Guardian

"This book is wonderful, it resonated so powerfully with me and I loved the ways in which Emma forces us to look afresh at the gender inequality we so often unthinkingly accept as normal. It is funny, incisive and unflinching and speaks to vital feminist issues women today are grappling with in their daily lives. I know it will make a lot of people think twice, and think differently." -- Laura Bates, The Everyday Sexism Project

"Full of fire, fun and humour, Emma is a political cartoonist for our times. Don't miss this book." -- Laurie Penny

"The Mental Load, a feminist comic by Emma, takes readers on a journey of awakening that is at once delightfully whimsical and frustratingly serious. The graphic stories take aim at the way women's unpaid caregiving and labor is invisible, undervalued and expected at home, and how it shapes and limits their experiences and career trajectories at work. An eye-opening gem."
 --Brigid Schulte, award-winning journalist, author of the New York Times bestselling Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time, and director of The Better Life Lab at New America

"Funny and relevant, this is a book to slip on all your colleagues' desks." --Elle

"Emma talks about the clitoris like nobody else." --Huffington Post

"Her comics perfectly explain the mental load that women bear in the household." Marie Claire

"This spirited graphic treatise, growing from a viral web cartoon, aims to provide a friendly introduction to contemporary feminist issues... it manages to blend the personal and the political with precise, honest insights." --Publishers Weekly

"Emma's strong, smart, clear-eyed book gives us the language (and the urgent desire) to shout from the rooftops about the maddening, unacknowledged injustices women face every day. It validates all the thoughts I have about being a woman and didn't have words for." -- Liana Finck, author of Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

"The Mental Load, a feminist comic by Emma, takes readers on a journey of awakening that is at once delightfully whimsical and frustratingly serious. The graphic stories take aim at the way women's unpaid caregiving and labor is invisible, undervalued and expected at home, and how it shapes and limits their experiences and career trajectories at work. An eye-opening gem." -- Brigid Schulte, award-winning journalist, author of the New York Times bestselling Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time, and director of The Better Life Lab at New America

"Every activist is an alchemist at heart, transforming the familiar into the political. Emma does it by applying forensic objectivity to the everyday, to create visual essays which are transformative agents of change." --Jacky Fleming, author of The Trouble With Women

"Eminently worthwhile...Emma illustrates just how effective even the most basic comics can be at crystallizing social dynamics."

--The New York Times

About the Author

EMMA is a 36-year-old computer technician who lives in Paris but who says she learns "all over the place." She podcasts programs for the radio station France Culture, and her comics run in The Guardian. A former member of the collective Stop harcèlement de rue (Stop Street Harassment), she is confident that her feminist beliefs have now made it onto the "information superhighway" for good.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seven Stories Press; Illustrated edition (25 Oct. 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1609809181
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1609809188
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.69 x 1.47 x 25.37 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 548 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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Book looks undamaged inside but cover has patch of card stuck to it unrelated to the packaging. As it stands, it ruins the appearance, and it is not possible to remove it without damaging the cover.This is disappointing and unfortunate, luckily it is not a gift. But I was not expecting a damaged item.On the contents - really looking forward to reading, loved catching Emma’s illustrations online so to have them collated is exciting!
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Book looks undamaged inside but cover has patch of card stuck to it unrelated to the packaging. As it stands, it ruins the appearance, and it is not possible to remove it without damaging the cover.
This is disappointing and unfortunate, luckily it is not a gift. But I was not expecting a damaged item.
On the contents - really looking forward to reading, loved catching Emma’s illustrations online so to have them collated is exciting!
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Das Buch ist on Point und Klasse.
Leider kam gedellt an. Wenn es ein Geschenk gewesen wäre, hätte ich es so nicht verschenken können. Schade.
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