How to Resist Guilt: On What's Holding Us Back
May 2026 · Pan Macmillan
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About this ebook
A powerful exploration of self-blame, where it comes from, why women are prone to it, and what we can do about it.
Many of us regularly hear a sarcastic, malevolent voice echoing in our heads, attacking us, lecturing us, putting us down. It tells us that whatever we do, we're wrong. It says we're worthless. We don't deserve anything good. We're fundamentally flawed. Our very existence is unjustified. It's a voice that rings out particularly loud if we're women and belong to a minority group.
In How to Resist Guilt, acclaimed feminist writer Mona Chollet shines a light on this enemy within. What exactly are these fears that have managed to enter the deepest recesses of our minds? How can they be identified? And, importantly, kept at bay?
Exploring the guilt-tripping of women, especially mothers, the cult of work, which indexes our worth strictly in terms of our productivity, and the resurgence of mindsets intent on punishment or retribution, this is a powerful book about that little voice inside us and how to silence it.
Translated by Emily Boyce
Many of us regularly hear a sarcastic, malevolent voice echoing in our heads, attacking us, lecturing us, putting us down. It tells us that whatever we do, we're wrong. It says we're worthless. We don't deserve anything good. We're fundamentally flawed. Our very existence is unjustified. It's a voice that rings out particularly loud if we're women and belong to a minority group.
In How to Resist Guilt, acclaimed feminist writer Mona Chollet shines a light on this enemy within. What exactly are these fears that have managed to enter the deepest recesses of our minds? How can they be identified? And, importantly, kept at bay?
Exploring the guilt-tripping of women, especially mothers, the cult of work, which indexes our worth strictly in terms of our productivity, and the resurgence of mindsets intent on punishment or retribution, this is a powerful book about that little voice inside us and how to silence it.
Translated by Emily Boyce
About the author
Mona Chollet is a journalist for le Monde Diplomatique and speaks fluent English. She has appeared at the Festival Albertine in New York (curated by Gloria Steinem) and on a panel with Roxane Gay (to talk about women’s bodies and their treatment as public property). She has written on women's bodies, the domestic sphere and dismantling right-wing political imagery. How to Resist Guilt is her third book.
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