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Flesh
Breasts. Skin. Stomach. Thighs. Arms. Legs.
Women are so much more than pieces of meat, but so often this is what we are reduced to.
Flesh . Dehumanised, distorted, exploited, dissected.
In this urgent and powerful series of essays, author and activist Charli Howard explores how society has dissected and sexualised the female body throughout time. Through analysing her own body, one piece at a time, Charli charts the impact of long-term sexual objectification and misogyny on the female body, and how to reclaim it for yourself and, eventually, truly love it as your own.
Through personal reflection and social analysis, she reminds us why we must give ourselves grace when assessing our own bodies, as we are so often viewing them through a lens corrupted long before we were born. With the rise of misogyny and male violence in the modern world, Flesh is an unmissable exploration of what it means to be a woman in the twenty-first century.
You'll never look at yourself the same way again.
*****
'A fierce and tender exploration of what it means to reclaim your own body... blends research with lived truth in a way that feels necessary and expansive' Yrsa Daley-Ward
Women are so much more than pieces of meat, but so often this is what we are reduced to.
Flesh . Dehumanised, distorted, exploited, dissected.
In this urgent and powerful series of essays, author and activist Charli Howard explores how society has dissected and sexualised the female body throughout time. Through analysing her own body, one piece at a time, Charli charts the impact of long-term sexual objectification and misogyny on the female body, and how to reclaim it for yourself and, eventually, truly love it as your own.
Through personal reflection and social analysis, she reminds us why we must give ourselves grace when assessing our own bodies, as we are so often viewing them through a lens corrupted long before we were born. With the rise of misogyny and male violence in the modern world, Flesh is an unmissable exploration of what it means to be a woman in the twenty-first century.
You'll never look at yourself the same way again.
*****
'A fierce and tender exploration of what it means to reclaim your own body... blends research with lived truth in a way that feels necessary and expansive' Yrsa Daley-Ward
- GenresNonfictionFeminism
239 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 5, 2026
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April 10, 2026
this book made me feel a plethora of ways, it made me challenge myself, how i view myself and made me think outside the box - a box that shouldn’t exist - the box that i put myself in, along with many [if not] ALL women subject themselves to.
all of these chapters made me feel something, some feelings that i didnt like, about the way i look, the way i see myself, the way i treat myself, and let others treat me.
stomach. pg 133
“Experience has taught me that whenever a woman says she feels fat, what she actually means is that she feels bad within herself. She's experiencing feelings and emotions she can't quite describe or find the words for and, as a result, her brain reaches for the worst description a person - or, at least, a woman - can be: fat.”
i honestly had to stop reading for a minute and just take in what was i had just read. while it may not reflect how every woman feels, this was an insanely accurate read on how i see myself, and how i feel.
charli howard you are an amazing writer, and i am eternally grateful, Flesh has truly inspired me.
all of these chapters made me feel something, some feelings that i didnt like, about the way i look, the way i see myself, the way i treat myself, and let others treat me.
stomach. pg 133
“Experience has taught me that whenever a woman says she feels fat, what she actually means is that she feels bad within herself. She's experiencing feelings and emotions she can't quite describe or find the words for and, as a result, her brain reaches for the worst description a person - or, at least, a woman - can be: fat.”
i honestly had to stop reading for a minute and just take in what was i had just read. while it may not reflect how every woman feels, this was an insanely accurate read on how i see myself, and how i feel.
charli howard you are an amazing writer, and i am eternally grateful, Flesh has truly inspired me.
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May 19, 2026
I hear you girl.
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