{"product_id":"the-women","title":"The Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eImaginative, brilliant and daring: Hilton Als's now-classic meditation on gender, race and personal identity in America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat are the forces that shape us? In \u003ci\u003eThe Women\u003c\/i\u003e, Hilton Als explores-with breath taking originality-the role of sexual and racial identity in marginalized lives. With a blend of fact and fiction, Als brings to vivid life a number of extraordinary characters, including: his mother, a singular woman whose West Indian heritage and determination inspired her son to write; Malcolm X's mother, whose mixed-race background and eventual descent into madness contributed to her son's burgeoning misogyny and fear; brilliant, Harvard-educated Dorothy Dean, who deeply empathized with white gay men; and Owen Dodson, teacher and poet, who played an important role in the author's development as a gay man, and thinker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining memoir, cultural history, social theory and storytelling, \u003ci\u003eThe Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a profoundly innovative work which has inspired a generation of writers. Here, Als submits both racial and sexual stereotypes to scrutiny, showing 'no mercy but every tenderness'. The results are exhilarating. The Women is that rarest of books: a memorable work of self-investigation that creates a form of all its own.","brand":"Hilton Als","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43515633238077,"sku":null,"price":25.64,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780141999746.jpg?v=1787487287","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-women","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}