Penny red : notes from the new age of dissent / Laurie Penny; foreword by Warren Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penny, Laurie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation.

Politics, Practical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Selected writings from a prominent voice of the activist left.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword -Warren Ellis""; ""Introduction""; ""I: This is Actually Happening""; ""Inside the Millbank Tower Riots""; ""Talking About a Revolution""; ""Inside the Whitehall Kettle""; ""Protesting the Turner Prize""; ""Inside the Parliament Square Kettle""; ""A Right Royal Poke""; ""No Sex, No Drugs and No Leaders""; ""What Really Happened in Trafalgar Square""; ""Lies in London""; ""II: Girl Trouble""; ""The Gulag of Desire""; ""In Defence of Cunt""; ""What 'Sun' Readers Swallow with their Corn Flakes""; ""The Sexy Way to Die""

""Vajazzled and Bemused""""Burlesque Laid Bare""; ""Me, the Patriarchy and My Big Red Pen""; ""Galliano's Fashionable Beliefs""; ""The Princess Craze is No Fairy Tale""; ""Skinny Porn""; ""Violence Against Women in Tahrir Square""; ""Zionism, Chauvinism and the Nature of Rape""; ""A Modesty Slip for Misogyny""; ""Charlie Sheen's Problem with Women""; ""The Shame is All Theirs""; ""III: Kingdom of Rains""; ""Undercover with the Young Conservatives""; ""Buns, Bunting and Retro-Imperialism""; ""This is England""; ""Poppy Day is the Opium of the People""; ""Michael Gove and the Imperialists""

""V: Their Hallucinations, Our Desires: The Grassroots""""Insurrection on Oxford Street""; ""This is No Conspiracy""; ""The Revolution will be Civilised""; ""Revolts Don't Have to be Tweeted""; ""Is That a Truncheon in Your Pocket?""; ""One Man and His Tent""; ""How the Disabled were Dehumanised""; ""Hey, Dave: Our Society's Bigger than Yours""; ""In Defence of Squatting""; ""Inside the Gaddafi House""; ""Details of Original Publication""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781849646048

184964604X

9781849646031

1849646031

OCLC:

769190507