Flesh

by Charli Howard

Choose yourself. Reclaim your body. Become whole.

The deeply personal and uniquely empowering call to arms from author, model and activist, Charli Howard.

' Powerful and incredibly validating ' Lily Reinhart
' Extraordinary ' Glamour
' Fierce and tender' Yrsa Daley-Ward
' Urgent and timely ' Emma Louise-Boynton

In this urgent and powerful series of essays, author and activist Charli Howard explores how society has objectified 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 shows 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. Flesh is an unmissable exploration of what it means to be a woman in the twenty-first century.

Genres: Nonfiction, Feminism

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Published March 5, 2026

Reviews

[dani · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Elena Fratini · Rating 4 out of 5]

I hear you girl.