# Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women - Hardcover

by **Victoria Smith** (Author)

**'Rich, complex and witty' ROSE GEORGE, _SPECTATOR_**

**'Devastating and clever' BEL MOONEY, _DAILY MAIL_**

**'Could not be more necessary' RACHEL COOKE, _OBSERVER_**

**What is about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage** \- **almost everyone?**

In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused.

In _Hags_, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme - care work, beauty, violence, political organization, sex - and explores it in relation to middle-aged women's beliefs, bodies, histories and choices. Smith traces the attitudes she describes through history, and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so very _now_. The result is a book that is absorbing, insightful, witty and bang on time.

### Author Biography

Victoria Smith is a regular contributor to the _New Statesman_ and the _Independent_, focusing on women's issues, parenting and mental health. Her newsletter, The OK Karen, about midlife women's experiences of feminism, was launched last year, and she tweets @glosswitch. She lives in Cheltenham with her family.

**Number of Pages:** 368

**Dimensions:** 0.97 x 9.49 x 6.34 IN

**Publication Date:** February 13, 2024

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