Meet the Author: Clementine Ford (SOLD OUT)
I Don't presents an inarguable case against marriage for modern women. With the incisive attention to detail and razor-sharp wit that characterises her work, Clementine dissects the patriarchal history of marriage: the insidious, centuries-long marketing campaign pop culture has conducted in marriage's favour; the illusion of feminist 'choice' in regard to taking men's names; and the physical and social cost that comes with motherhood. Clementine exposes the lies used to sell marriage to women to keep them in service to men and male power. From the roots of marriage as a form of property transaction to the wedding industrial complex, Clementine explains how capitalist patriarchal structures need women to believe in marriage in order to maintain control over women's agency, ambitions and freedom. But most importantly, Clementine shows us what a different kind of world could look like for women if we were allowed to be truly free.
Clementine Ford is a writer, broadcaster and feminist community builder living in Naarm/Melbourne. She is the bestselling author of the feminist manifestos Fight Like A Girl and Boys Will Be Boys, which have also been published to great acclaim in the UK and the US, and her memoir How We Love, which she adapted into a live stage performance called 'Love Sermon'. In 2017, she won the Matt Richell Award for Best New Writer of the Year at the ABIAs. Her favourite colour is pink.
Tickets are $15 or you can purchase Ticket + Book for $35 (I Don't is normally $35 on its own) with the book to be collected at the event. I Don't will be on sale for the night for $35.
If you are unable to attend the event on the night, but would love a copy of the signed book delivered or posted to your South Australian address (free postage) after the event, please select Book Only ($35).
Location
Burnside Ballroom
401 Greenhill Road, Tusmore South Australia 5065
Contact Details
08 8339 3931 or books@matildabookshop.com.au