Tips for Girls Special with Margaret Montgomery

As part of our Tips For Girls programme, we are delighted to welcome Margaret Montgomery, author of the novel Beauty Tips For Girls, to Glasgow Women’s Library. The book asks the question: what happens when bad advice is given at the worst possible time? Katy is an impressionable teenager obsessed with Misty magazine and its beauty tips. With her once-glamorous mother, Corinne, spiralling into self-destruction, she turns to Misty for advice, with disastrous but often hilarious consequences. Only Katy’s teacher, Jane, has the insight to put her pupil back on track, but she has a story of her own to tell. Can these three very different women each find their own voice in a society obsessed with perfection?

Tips for Girls Special with Margaret Montgomery on Thursday 3^rd March from 5.30pm – 7.30pm

We’ll be talking with Margaret about feminism, women’s portrayal within the media and the pressures of the idea of ‘perfection’ on women, as well as looking at some of the often hilarious beauty tips in the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive and GWL’s own collection.

Tips for Girls Workshops Throughout Spring:

We would love for you to join us for all of the workshops as during Spring we will be developing an exhibition together. However, if you can only make it to some, we would be pleased for you to join. Each session has it’s own booking page.

Thursday 4^th February, 2pm to 4pm

Thursday 3^rd March, 5.30pm to 7.30pm (Tips For Girls Special with Margaret Montgomery)

Thursday 7^th April, 2pm to 4pm

Thursday 5^th May, 5.30pm to 7.30pm

Booking

This workshop is for women only and is free to attend.

Please book below (you will be taken through the shopping cart but no charge will be made) or you can call us on 0141 550 2267. If you have booked a place and are no longer able to attend please let us know so that we can make your place available to someone else.