Barreca is back and this time she’s telling women to make trouble, be loud, be funny and step-up. Gina brings her trademark wry humor and provocative insight to issues great and small, including:
- why, as women age, we trade being visible for being audible (and why that’s a good thing)
- why having slurpy noises made towards us on the street by strangers is not a genuinely fulfilling feminine experience
- why packing a shoe-horn can save your marriage
- why we don’t talk about the crushes we have when we’re over 40 (even though we still have them)
- why you should thank your ex-boyfriend
- why you should forgive your mother
- why you should stop talking about the benefits of blueberries already
- why, if you run with a bad crowd, you can call it exercise
- what words rich people use that poor people don’t
Filled with insight, lessons, comfort and confessions, If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse? cheers and challenges women to come together and speak up. Learn more about the book...
“Barrecaville turns out to be a very funny place. In it, bad boyfriends are good: They remind us that, just as there are significant others, so, too, are there insignificant others. With that tiny twist of language, she seizes something that was right in front of us the whole time but we couldn’t grasp….Despite all the rowdiness, Barreca’s erudition pokes through every page. She romps across the literary landscape…”
-Psychology Today
“Barreca's mix of personal essays, lists, and advice column-style interludes is laugh-out-loud funny (literally...).”
-ELLE’S LETTRES Readers’ Prize, June 2016
“[Barreca] created a beautiful, entertaining and touching essay that opens up women’s leadership issues and workforce equities and inequities in a way Sandberg’s book cannot, because the billionaire CEO writes from a different place of greater privilege and power. We hardworking women should all have this book (and Barreca’s others as well!) on our shelf, as a drop-in, cheer up, think a bit, and get back to work…”
-Carol Burbank, Ph.D. Leadership Spirit
“Gina Barreca’s essays are like dispatches from a dear friend: Wonderful, witty, heartfelt and wise—with many memorable zingers and tear inducing stingers. Her gift is one of connection and her work is relatable and true. Share this book with your sisters and your BFF (Brainy Friends and Feminists) book group.”
-Ask Amy advice columnist Amy Dickinson
“If you ever find that your best gal pal isn't available, you need look no further than Barreca's book - it contains everything a good friend would provide: honesty, insight, female camaraderie, and a lot of laughs.”
-Rachel Dratch, Saturday Night Live and author of Girl Walks into a Bar
