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020 _a9780143483816
037 _cPurchased
_nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041 _aEnglish
082 _a305.40954
_bHAR/GI
100 _aHarinadh Kaur
245 _aGIRLS ARE NOT FINE
_b: Cost of Ambition, Careers and Becoming
250 _a1
260 _aHaryana
_bPenguin Books
_c2026
300 _g379
500 _aWomen are taught early that ‘fine’ is the only acceptable answer. Fine at work. Fine at home. Fine in relationships. Fine in bodies that are always being watched and measured. The Girls Are Not Fine is about what’s underneath all that fineness. The invisible labour, the emotional maths, the unassuming ways women shrink themselves to fit rooms that were never built for them. This isn’t a self-help book. It’s a vocabulary. A transfer of language for the things women carry but rarely get to name: the performance of competence, the economics of being ‘low maintenance’, the exhaustion of being the family’s emotional infrastructure while also trying to build a career, a life, a self. Part confession, part cultural critique, part practical toolkit, it moves through work, money, family, body, friendship and love, not to fix anything, but to finally call it what it is.
650 _aWomen—Employment—India
650 _aWomen professionals
650 _aCareer development
650 _aSelf-development for women
942 _cLEN
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