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King Kong Theory
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Book Details
- ISBN 9781846686429
- 15 January 2009
- 160 pp
- Paperback
Contributors
Translated by
Polly McLean
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Synopsis
King Kong Theory is Despentes's candid account of how she became notorious: reviled and admired in equal measure for her rape-revenge novel turned film, Baise-Moi, she is the poster girl for modern female rebellion. Powerful, provocative and personal, King Kong Theory describes the ways her ideas have been shaped by her experiences of rape, prostitution and working in the porn industry.
Feminist theory sheds its fusty image and takes on a punk mentality as Despentes claims that sisterhood explodes our belief in feminine perfection and creates a space for all those who can’t or won’t obey the rules. Woolf and de Beauvoir are revived and updated by the loudest, most fiercely unapologetic misfit writing in France today.
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Extract:
‘I am writing from the ugly side, for the mingers, the frigid, the sexually frustrated, the un-fuckable, all those who can’t get into the great sexy woman market – and also for the men who don’t want to be protective, those who would like to be but don’t know how, for those who are not ambitious, not competitive nor even well endowed. For I believe that the ideal of the sexy white female which is constantly shoved under our noses, does not exist.’