Caitlin Moran is a 'gobby broad' and proud. Her book is personal/political - the title being more a nod to DeBeauvoir's famous quote ('one is not born a woman, rather one becomes one') than any kind of instruction manual. It's funny and strident and passionate, very much as I imagine the author to be in real life. It doesn't belong on the shelf with academic feminist treatises, but will happily sit on the next one down, drinking cheap red wine and refusing to wax it's pubic hair.