{"product_id":"a-frozen-woman-by-annie-ernaux","title":"'A Frozen Woman' by Annie Ernaux","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"371\" data-end=\"809\"\u003eIt begins with a girl who believes intelligence and freedom will carry her somewhere else; then becomes an account of what happens when the old arrangements of gender quietly reassert themselves anyway. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"811\" data-end=\"1328\"\u003eErnaux writes with that cold, exact clarity she does better than almost anyone: not confessional in the soft sense, not sociological in the dead sense, but brutally alert to the way desire, labour, ambition, and humiliation get organised inside a life. It is a feminist book, obviously, but more than that it is a book about consciousness under pressure—how a person notices themselves disappearing in real time. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"811\" data-end=\"1328\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOne of her sharpest books on gender, class, and the social manufacture of femininity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst English-language hardcover edition, Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1995. Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. In near fine condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44283095744595,"sku":null,"price":108.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-29T115930.151.png?v=1774745983","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/a-frozen-woman-by-annie-ernaux","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}