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Merging the personal and the political, observation and contemplation, the author examines what her life is and wonders what it should be; what is expected of a thirty year old woman by society, by family and friends and by herself. She walks the streets of her London, creating it and herself -- gaining agency by being in control of her own direction, speed and momentum. Walking is both an internal and external experience. It's a time for self-reflection, for observing others and for imagining how we appear to them. What is expected of a person of our age, sex, and race, and how should that influence what we do and how we feel about ourselves? A poignant and contemporary meditation on gender politics, social commentary, and eighties movies, all interlaced with shards of autobiography and illustrated with a beautiful series of sequential and non-sequential watercolour images.
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Walking Distance, Lizzy Stewart
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- Released
- 2024
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- Title
- Walking Distance
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lizzy Stewart
- Publisher
- Avery Hill Publishing Limited
- Released
- 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 56
- ISBN10
- 1910395811
- ISBN13
- 9781910395813
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Comics & Manga, Comic Books, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Feminism
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- Merging the personal and the political, observation and contemplation, the author examines what her life is and wonders what it should be; what is expected of a thirty year old woman by society, by family and friends and by herself. She walks the streets of her London, creating it and herself -- gaining agency by being in control of her own direction, speed and momentum. Walking is both an internal and external experience. It's a time for self-reflection, for observing others and for imagining how we appear to them. What is expected of a person of our age, sex, and race, and how should that influence what we do and how we feel about ourselves? A poignant and contemporary meditation on gender politics, social commentary, and eighties movies, all interlaced with shards of autobiography and illustrated with a beautiful series of sequential and non-sequential watercolour images.