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Penny was born in London, the daughter of the late lawyer Ray Barnett. She grew up in Brighton and Lewes.
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Shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize 2014 Smart, clear-eyed, and irreverent, Unspeakable Things is a fresh look at gender and power in the twenty-first century, which asks difficult questions about dissent and desire, money and masculinity, sexual violence, menial work, mental health, queer politics, and the Internet. Celebrated journalist and activist Laurie Penny draws on a broad history of feminist thought and her own experience in radical subcultures in America and Britain to take on cultural phenomena from the Occupy movement to online dating, give her unique spin on economic justice and freedom of speech, and provide candid personal insight to rally the defensive against eating disorders, sexual assault, and internet trolls. Unspeakable Things is a book that is eye-opening not only in the critique it provides, but also in the revolutionary alternatives it imagines.
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In the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the most prominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diverse writings, showing what it is to be young, angry and progressive in the face of an increasingly violent and oppressive UK government. Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent collects Penny's writings on youth politics, resistance, feminism and culture. Her journalism is a unique blend of persuasive analysis, captivating interviews and first-hand accounts of political direct action. She was involved in all the key protests of 2010/2011, including the anti-fees demos in 2010 and the anti-cuts protests of spring 2011, often tweeting live from the scene of kettles and baton charges. An introduction and extensive footnotes allow Penny to connect all the strands of her work, showing the links between political activism and wider social and cultural issues. This book is essential for understanding what motivates the new generation of activists, writers and thinkers that bring creativity, energy and urgency to the fight against capitalism and exploitation.
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Unsere Kultur ist besessen von der Kontrolle über den weiblichen Körper, sie quillt über von Darstellungen unwirklicher weiblicher Schönheit. Gleichzeitig weidet sich die Presse an magersüchtigen Starlets, schwangeren Unterschichts-Teenagern und feuchten Schoßgebeten. Laurie Penny, angry young woman und Star der englischen Bloggerszene, legt den Finger auf die Wunde: "Man erwartet von uns, dass wir selbstbewusst auftreten und sexuell allzeit verfügbar wirken, aber wir sollen uns schämen und werden geächtet, wenn wir Arroganz, Ehrgeiz oder erotisches Verlangen zeigen. Riot, don't diet"
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Modern culture is obsessed with controlling women's bodies. Our societies are saturated with images of unreal, idealised female beauty whilst real female bodies and the women who inhabit them are alienated from their own personal and political potential. Under modern capitalism, women are both consumers and consumed: Meat Market offers strategies for resisting this gory cycle of consumption, exposing how the trade in female flesh extends into every part of women's political selfhood.
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(Selected writings from a prominent voice of the new activ...)
Selected writings from a prominent voice of the new activist left. Reflections on being young, broke and angry in the 21st century.
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(Modern culture is obsessed with controlling women's bodie...)
Modern culture is obsessed with controlling women's bodies. Our societies are saturated with images of unreal, idealised female beauty whilst real female bodies and the women who inhabit them are alienated from their own personal and political potential. Under modern capitalism, women are both consumers and consumed: Meat Market offers strategies for resisting this gory cycle of consumption, exposing how the trade in female flesh extends into every part of women's political selfhood. Touching on sexuality, prostitution, hunger, consumption, eating disorders, housework, transsexualism and the global trade in the signs and signifiers of femininity, Meat Market is a thin, bloody sliver of feminist dialectic, dissecting women's bodies as the fleshy fulcrum of capitalist cannibalism.
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Penny was born in London, the daughter of the late lawyer Ray Barnett. She grew up in Brighton and Lewes.
Penny attended the independent school Brighton College on a scholarship. Penny studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, graduating in 2008 with a 2:1. She then completed her NCTJ journalism training certificate in London.
She is of Irish, Jewish, and Maltese descent. She has written about her hospitalisation at age 17 for anorexia and subsequent recovery. Whilst a student, she joined and performed in a burlesque troupe, and appeared in amateur dramatic productions with the Oxford University Light Entertainment Society, of which she was a committee member.
She has written columns and features for several publications, and is a columnist for the New Statesman and regular contributor to The Guardian.
In April 2011, Penny presented the Channel 4 Dispatches programme "Cashing In on Degrees", and appeared on the same channel"s satirical current affairs programme 10 O"Clock Live and British Broadcasting Corporation Two"s Newsnight. On 26 March 2012, Penny announced via her Twitter account that she was leaving the New Statesman to take up a full-time post at The Independent newspaper as a reporter and columnist.
In October 2012, it was announced that she was leaving The Independent to rejoin the New Statesman (in November) as a columnist and contributing editors Penny Red was shortlisted for the inaugural Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing in 2012.
Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution was published in July 2014.
In the book, Penny reveals she has had sexual relationships with both men and women in the past Shortly afterwards, Penny stated she was subject to "a stream of vile sexist and anti-Semitic abuse" following the book"s publication. Penny was selected by Truthdig as "Truthdigger of the Week" for the week of 25 November 2011.
In 2012, Tatler magazine described her as one of top 100 "people who matter".
In October 2012, The Daily Telegraph ranked Penny as the 55th most influential left-winger in Britain, reporting that she is "without doubt the loudest and most controversial female voice on the radical left." In April 2014, Penny was announced as an International Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
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She has contributed articles to publications such as The Guardian and the New Statesman, and has written two books on the subject of feminism. She began her career as a staff writer at One in Four magazine and then worked as a reporter and sub-editor for the socialist newspaper Morning Star. In Meat Market she mounts an attack on liberal feminism, which she characterises as embracing the consumer choice offered by capitalism as the path to female emancipation.
Oxford University Light Entertainment Society.