Girl Up - Softcover

"If you have a daughter or a niece or a younger sister or a goddaughter, buy it for them now." --The Pool

"We owe Bates a great debt of gratitude for her Everyday Sexism Project, even if it's the sort of thing that's hard to visit daily."--LA Times

"Following [Everyday Sexism] will make most women feel oddly saner." --Caitlin Moran

"Laura was one of the first women to harness the power of social media to fight sexism and misogyny and give millions of young women a voice." --Grazia

"Bates takes a myth-busting approach to body image, food, sex and advertising and is particularly good at boiling down feminist language into a snappy, everyday vernacular without diluting its power."--Metro

"For any woman who is sick of being told how to act, how to dress, or how to ward off unwanted advances, this book could be for you." --Independent

"Another hard-hitting book which exposes the truth surrounding pressures on body image, false representations in the media, and lots of issues very relevant to girls today. This no-nonsense guide to being a girl in 2016 is one all teen girls should read."--Red
"Bates is funny, piercingly astute, and will have you furious and politicized over the impact social media, pornography, and advertising have on our bodies." --Stylist

"Funny and clever." --Telegraph

ONE OF BUSTLE.COM'S MOST IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS OF 2016: "Intelligent, sassy, and funny, Laura Bates's Girl Up adds another much-needed voice to the conversation about female body image, highlighting the false portrayals of female bodies in the media (and the way social media has increased this ten-fold, ) the double standards that are enforced upon the female body and sexuality that men are not subject to, and the ways sexual education classes are failing to address the needs of young women."-Bustle.com

Laura Bates studied English at Cambridge University and went on to be a freelance journalist. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman, Red Magazine and Grazia among others. She is also contributor at Women Under Siege, a New-York based organisation working to combat the use of sexual violence as a tool of war in conflict zones worldwide. She is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project.