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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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Published on January 20, 2026 11:30

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	Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently 4.20 avg rating — 2,532 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	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 — 1,333 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
	The Playboy of the Western World―A New Version: A Critical Edition by Bisi Adigun, Jason King (Goodreads Author) (editor), Matthew Spangler (editor) 3.60 avg rating — 5 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
	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
	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
	Do It Yourself: A Novel 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 — 4 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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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert

12 votes 12.5%

Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently by Emer O'Toole

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Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

7 votes 7.3%

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

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Crank by Ellen Hopkins

3 votes 3.1%

The Woman from Tantoura by Radwa Ashour

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The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride

3 votes 3.1%

The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan

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An Elegy for Easterly: Stories by Petina Gappah

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