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Hags | Victoria Smith

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#Read2025 #MonthlyNonFiction

Finished last weekend for #SheSaid & my third #Roll100 October pick #38 Any nonfiction. A sobering (because I‘m well into the hag camp age-wise) read about the demonization of 40+ aged women. The author hits some points well but lost me in others especially when her points were more chaotic. It was interesting & provocative which is why it gets a pick, but I‘m not sure I learned that much new from reading it.🤷🏻‍♀️

Riveted_Reader_Melissa, DieAReader, julieclair

julieclair Great, helpful review. Makes me feel I‘d like to read a summary or outline of this book, or hear a lecture on it, but not read the whole book. 2w

DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 2w

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AnneCecilie

Hags | Victoria Smith

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An interesting look on middle-aged women and how they are treated. The author focuses on women born between 1965 and 1980, but we will all become middle-aged sometime. The focus is not the 3s: fertility, femininity and fuckability, and how women are viewed according to these parameters and middle-aged women don‘t come out favorably

I‘m glad #SheSaid put this on my radar

Riveted_Reader_Melissa

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AnneCecilie

Hags | Victoria Smith

#SheSaid

AnnCrystal This is...enraging 🤬🤬🤬😢✊🏼🥺💔♀️❤️‍🩹♀️💝. (edited) 2w

Jari-chan It is 😡😡😡😡 2w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Hags | Victoria Smith

Hello #SheSaid!

I‘m still behind, but please stop in and discuss as you finish up this week‘s section and the book .

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 3w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine @LitStephanie If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 3w

vlwelser This book definitely got better as it went along. I still think chapters 5 + 6 were the best though. 3w

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AnneCecilie

Hags | Victoria Smith

I had no idea that women could inherit property, at least in Salem. Did this apply to the rest of the US as well?

#SheSaid

Read-n-Bloom During the colonial period, widows throughout the colonies, not just in Salem, could own property, a right that distinguished them from their married counterparts. This ability came from the common law doctrine of "coverture," which controlled the legal rights of women based on their marital status. 3w

Read-n-Bloom Feme sole (single or widowed women): An unmarried woman was known as a feme sole, or "woman alone." Like men, she could own property, enter into contracts, write a will, and sue in court. A woman who became a widow reverted to this legal status. 3w

Read-n-Bloom Feme covert (married women): Under the system of coverture, a married woman became a feme covert, meaning her legal rights were "covered" by her husband. She lost the right to own property, control her own wages, and enter into contracts independently. Any property she brought into the marriage was placed under her husband's control. 3w

Read-n-Bloom I searched it for you because I was curious too 😉🙂 3w

AnneCecilie Thanks for all you searching 😊 You found a lot of interesting information and it puts the Salem witch trials in a different light 3w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Hags | Victoria Smith

Hello #SheSaid

Sorry for the late post again…this is becoming a habit and I apologize. How is everyone doing this week? How are you doing with this week‘s chapters?

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 4w

AllDebooks I've just started it and I'm obsessed 4w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine @LitStephanie If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 4w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @AllDebooks I‘m way behind this month. So I‘m glad I‘m not alone 😅. I have been a terrible reader this year. 4w

vlwelser Chapters 5 + 6 are the best yet, IMO. Finally she seems to not be just spitting out things I've already consumed in other books. I guess I can also relate to chapter 5 more than some of the others. In 6, I liked what she had to say about the perceptions about Mumsnet and how it's perceived by outsiders. But also used by politicians as a way to discredit female voices. 4w

Singout Have there been votes for November and December yet? No pressure! 4w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Singout not up yet, so you did not miss it 3w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Hags | Victoria Smith

Hello #SheSaid!

Way behind today… power issues here locally. Discussion below for this week‘s section, drop in as you finish the section.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 1mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine @LitStephanie If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 1mo

vlwelser I'm starting to feel like this author is covering ground other people have already wandered over. It's good. I'm just not completely blown away by it. 1mo

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MallenNC @vlwelser There were definitely times when I started to wonder if I‘d read this already. 1mo

vlwelser @mallennc I did, but mostly because she keeps quoting Caitlin Moran. 1mo

MallenNC @vlwelser I have read How to Be a Woman so maybe that‘s why. It also reminds me of that Witches book we read last year by the French author. I can‘t remember the name 1mo

vlwelser @mallennc yes. That book was also similar even if it was a European perspective. 1mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @MallenNC I loved Moran‘s first 2 books. I really need to read her more recent 2 new ones…I‘ll tag them below (edited) 4w

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AnneCecilie

Hags | Victoria Smith

An interesting take on having work done on your face/ body to look younger

#SheSaid

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Hags | Victoria Smith

Hello #SheSaid!

Sorry for the late post. But…

We are off with a new book!

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 1mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine @LitStephanie If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 1mo

MallenNC I‘m going to try to keep up this month! I‘ve been thinking about what she says in chapter 1 about the tendency online to say people opposite of our beliefs are aging faster because they are hateful inside. (Paraphrasing) and how that makes us see aging as a sign of failure. That‘s interesting to me 1mo

vlwelser I do think this is interesting @MallenNC it's like they couldn't come up with a more creative insult. Joke's on them though because it happens to everyone. Angry people are often accused of being ugly. I like the Twits quotes even if Dahl was a crazy bigot himself. 1mo

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LitsyEvents

Hags | Victoria Smith

repost for @Riveted_Reader_Melissa:

Hello #SheSaid!

Schedule is ready! See you this weekend!

#BuddyRead

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Hags | Victoria Smith

Hello #SheSaid!

Schedule is ready! See you this weekend!

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 1mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine @LitStephanie If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 1mo

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Hags | Victoria Smith

Up Next for #SheSaid.

Still on sale on Kindle and Kobo if you are like me and it is unavailable at your library

Otherwise, put in your library loans and inter-library loans.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 2mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine @LitStephanie If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 2mo

MallenNC Thanks for sharing! My library doesn‘t have it either so I‘ll have to buy it. I‘m hoping to keep up this month. 2mo

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Hags | Victoria Smith

Our book club pick for #SheSaid for October is on sale on both Kobo and Kindle today if you want to pick it up while it is on sale.

nelsonmatt890 Do you use the Goodreads app? 8mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @nelsonmatt890 I do, yes 8mo

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Hags | Victoria Smith

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TheEllieMo

Hags | Victoria Smith

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I wouldn‘t say this is a perfectly-written book (I did have to to read back bits because I missed nuances), but in an era when misogyny is at the highest level I‘ve ever seen it in my 55 years, this exploration of the demonisation of older women, from the burning of witches, through mother-in-law jokes, to today‘s “Karening”, is an important work.

Book 7 #SummerEndReadathon @TheSpineView
Book 12 #Rushathon @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

GHABI4ROSES You just woke a part of this 50 year old brain, thank you. 2y

Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 2y

TheSpineView Great job! 2y

DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2y

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