ARGONAUT BOOKS

Elise Loehnen looks at the ways in which women have been penned by the fake morality of the sins, and how we find ourselves complicit in denying ourselves a full existence for fear of crossing some sort of line - of wanting too much, being too much, falsely equating 'self-control' with goodness. In this process of self-betrayal, she finds, we have also betrayed each other. A bold and daring denouncement of that which has been used to condemn 'badly behaving' women, 'On Our Best Behaviour' asks: what does it mean to be 'good', particularly as a woman, in today's world? And if a sin is something...Read More