Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling
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- ISBN 9781580059060
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Seal Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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You know what? It's super creepy to kiss a woman who is unconscious. And you know what else? The way out of poverty isn't by marrying a rich dude--or by wearing fragile footwear, for that matter. And while we're at it, why is the only woman who lives with seven men expected to do the cooking, cleaning, and laundry?
Fairytales need a reboot and comedy queens Laura Lane and Ellen Haun are the women to do it. In Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling, they offer a rollicking parody of classic (read: patriarchal) tales that turns sweet, submissive princesses into women who are perfectly capable of being the heroes of their own stories. Mulan climbs the ranks in the army but wages a different war when she finds out she's getting paid less than her fellow male captains, Wendy learns never to trust a manboy stalking her window, Sleeping Beauty's prince gets a lesson in consent, and more.
Busting with laugh-out-loud, razor-sharp twists to these outdated tales, Cinderella and the Glass Ceilingis fun, magical, necessary and totally woke.
Laura Lane is a comedy writer, performer, journalist, and author. She's written for People, McSweeney's, the New Yorker's Daily Shouts, ESPN, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and Cosmopolitan. Her book This Is Why You're Single was optioned for TV and has been covered by the New York Times, the L.A. Times, The Washington Post, and Bustle. She co-hosts the This Is Why You're Single podcast. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Ellen Haun is a writer, actor and comedian. She plays the hapless law student Ms. Chapin on ABC's How to Get Away with Murder. Ellen wrote, produced and starred in the web series OMGHI and the short film No Limes. She has performed at the Sydney Opera House, St. Ann's Warehouse and Williamstown Theatre Festival. She is a contributor to the humour website the Belladonna. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
