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I have some block capitals too many exclamation marks NEWS!!!!

My first novel, Do It Yourself, will be published by Douglas and McIntyre later this year.

Do It Yourself is about Katy MacIsaac, a single mom in her 40s who reinvents herself as a DIY influencer, only to find her online life sparking chaos. It's funny and ideas-y. Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.2 · 2,598 ratings · 318 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently 4.20 avg rating — 2,516 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen Writers on Intersectionality, Identity and Finding the Right Way Forward for Feminism by June Eric-Udorie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Soofiya Andry (Contributor), Gabrielle Bellot (Contributor) 4.24 avg rating — 1,324 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girls will be girls - II ed.: travestirsi, interpretare ruoli e cambiare le regole (le sagge) by Emer O'Toole (Goodreads Author), Beatrice Gnassi (translator), Hanna Maria Suni (illustrator) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Playboy of the Western World―A New Version: A Critical Edition by Bisi Adigun, Jason King (Goodreads Author) (editor), Matthew Spangler (editor) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ethical Exchanges in Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy (Themes in Theatre, 9) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girls will be girls : À bas les stéréotypes de genre ! really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“our society is unequal, and bodily difference is used to justify that inequality.”
― Emer O'Toole, Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently

tags: bodies, feminism, inequality, intersexuality

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“Agency refers to the individual – to the choices she makes. Structure refers to society – to the context that produced the individual, and in which she continues to act. Which of these factors most determines the person I am and the behaviours I perform?”
― Emer O'Toole, Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently

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“Make-up shouldn't signify frivolity any more than a closely shaved chin or a well-trimmed beard. The problem is not skirts, stilettos or other symbols of femininity; rather, it's what the symbols of femininity mean in our sexist culture.”
― Emer O'Toole, Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently

tags: feminism, feminist, sexism

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