Marilyn Monroe and her doomed late-century reincarnation Anna Nicole Smith Lindsay Lohan and
Elizabeth Taylor fêted baby actresses turned red-hot sex symbols Amy Winehouse and Billie
Holiday inspired perfomers who battled with the intensity of public scrutiny Self-made beauty
Pamela Anderson and trans bond girl Caroline 'Tula' Cossey The lives of famous women are made
up of reflections and imitation both conscious and unknowing. But how does an icon become an
icon? How do women make and remake their image in order to sell their work? In a series of
interconnected essays about pairs of famous women award-nominated essayist Philippa Snow
explores the echoes and connections between female icons and lays bare the artful and gruelling
demands of femininity - from the golden age of Hollywood to the TikTok era. Full of the
fascinating entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous
celebrities dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish flamboyant prose
Philippa Snow's first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the
complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.
