Decolonising My Body

On Ancestry, Tradition and Cultural Reinvention

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Beschreibung:

'Celebrates women how they are, as they are' GILLIAN ANDERSON
'There's something on every page of this book that you didn't know before' SATHNAM SANGHERA
'Brave and honest' ELIF SHAFAK

A global exploration of ancestral beauty practices by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Brit(ish)

OUR BODIES TELL OUR STORY.

This powerful global history of beauty by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Brit(ish) Afua Hirsch dismantles the colonial falsehoods that shape our sense of belonging and celebrates the pioneering stories and ideas of women from marginalised groups.

'Remarkable' OBSERVER
'Intimate' GUARDIAN
'Vital' i PAPER

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Über die Urheberinnen:

Afua Hirsch is a writer, filmmaker, and journalist. She is the author of Brit(ish), the Sunday Times bestseller that explores Britishness, identity and belonging, for which she was awarded the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction. She co-presented Enslaved, a 6-part series about the transatlantic slave trade with Samuel L Jackson. She is the presenter of the Audible podcast series We Need To Talk About the British Empire, and Africa Rising, an ongoing flagship series about art and culture for the BBC, through her production company Born in Me Productions. She is a longtime columnist for the Guardian and is a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.

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Produktdetails:

• Autor:in: Afua Hirsch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.02.2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• Seitenumfang: 240 Seiten
• ISBN: 9781529954197