How Dare She?

  • On the daily madness of being a woman on the internet – highly relatable
  • #1 bestselling author with 350,000 copies sold
  • For readers of Trick Mirror and observers of pop culture and feminism
  • Topics: Digital Feminism, Pop Culture Analysis, Online Misogyny
  • English sample by Lizzy Kinch available

Sophie Passmann examines the zeitgeist like no one else: smart, self-reflective, and highly entertaining

Botox or aging gracefully, posting too many selfies on Instagram, or jumping on every beauty trend on TikTok? Women on the internet are under constant scrutiny. Every like can become an indictment, every comment a political issue. "How dare she?"

Sophie Passmann is herself part of this contradictory world of female self-representation on social media. With radical self-criticism, she dissects the phenomena shaping an entire generation: from the ascetic discipline of Hailey Bieber to the calculated "brat" attitude of Charli XCX, all the way to the neurotic perfection of Taylor Swift. Why are we all so fascinated by women who are performing for us - while hating them for exactly that?


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  • Publisher: Kiepenheuer&Witsch
  • Release: 12.03.2026
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-00858-6
  • 240 Pages
  • Author: Sophie Passmann
How Dare She?
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Sophie Passmann

Sophie Passmann , born in 1994, is an author and presenter. Her books Old White Men (Alte Weisse Männer), Growing Pains (Komplett Gänsehaut) and  Pick Me Girls were chart-topping bestsellers. Rights to her books have been sold to China and the Netherlands.

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