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King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes, (2006) A ‘blend of memoir, critical theory, and feminist manifesto’, dealing with her time as a sex worker and as an infamous female author, exploring what it means to be a woman in a male-capitalist-exploitative world, with a focus on ‘the ways in which our…

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King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes, (2006) A ‘blend of memoir, critical theory, and feminist manifesto’, dealing with her time as a sex worker and as an infamous female author, exploring what it means to be a woman in a male-capitalist-exploitative world, with a focus on ‘the ways in which our experiences of gender, power, and control are bound up in the vast, multifaceted ideology of late capitalism and our lives are organized around satisfying, or disappointing, male desire.’ what strikes the reader is the visceral honesty, the frightening openness, and the intellectual brutality… it’s odd reading something and not feeling that there is an agenda there, either conscious or unconscious, either a misdirection or a holding back, nothing, over and above the determined hacking away at the power structures of society, exposing what we all accept and take for granted, as the corrupt, degrading and perverted system that it is. https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/king-kong-theory-by-virginie-despentes-2006/