Bad feminist : essays / Roxane Gay.
Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper Perennial,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 320 pages ; 21 cm |
Table of Contents:
- Feel me, see me, hear me, reach me
- Peculiar benefits
- Typical first year professor
- To scratch, claw or grope clumsily or frantically
- How to be friends with another woman
- Girls, girls, girls
- I once was Miss America
- Garish, glorious spectacles
- Not here to make friends
- How we all lose
- Reaching for catharsis : getting fat right (or wrong) and Diana Spechler's Skinny
- The smooth surfaces of idyll
- The careless language of sexual violence
- What we hunger for
- The illusion of safety/the safety of illusion
- The spectacle of broken men
- Some jokes are funnier than others
- Dear young ladies who love Chris Brown
- So much they would let him beat them
- Blurred lines, indeed
- The trouble with Prince Charming, or, He who trespassed against us
- The solace of preparing fried foods and other quaint remembrances from 1960s Mississippi : thoughts on The help
- Surviving Django
- Beyond the struggle narrative
- The morality of Tyler Perry
- The last day of a young black man
- When less is more
- The politics of respectability
- When Twitter does what journalism cannot
- The alienable rights of women
- Holding out for a hero
- A tale of two profiles
- The racism we all carry
- Tragedy, call, compassion, response
- Bad feminist : take one
- Bad feminist : take two.