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    Bad feminist : essays / Roxane Gay.

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    • Title:Bad feminist : essays / Roxane Gay.
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    • Author/Creator:Gay, Roxane.
    • Published/Created:New York : Harper Perennial, 2014.
      ©2014

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Gay, Roxane--Anecdotes.
      Feminism.
      Popular culture.
      Women--Conduct of life--Anecdotes.
      Race awareness in motion pictures.
      African Americans in mass media.
      Essays.
    • Medical Subjects: Gay, Roxane.
      Feminism.
      Popular Culture.
      Women.
      Black or African American.
    • Subject(s): Women--Conduct of life--Anecdotes.
    • Genre/Form:Essays.
    • Edition:First edition.
    • Description:xiv, 320 pages ; 21 cm
    • Summary:A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue." In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture. 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.
    • ISBN:9780062282712
      0062282719
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: Feminism (n.): Plural
      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
      Smooth Surfaces of Idyll
      Careless Language of Sexual Violence
      What We Hunger For
      Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion
      Spectacle of Broken Men
      Tale of Three Coming Out Stories
      Beyond the Measure of 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
      Trouble with Prince Charming, or He Who Trespassed Against Us
      Solace of Preparing Fried Foods and Other Quaint Remembrances from 1960's Mississippi: Thoughts on The Help
      Surviving Django
      Beyond the Struggle Narrative
      Morality of Tyler Perry
      Last Day of a Young Black Man
      When Less Is More
      Politics of Respectability
      When Twitter Does What Journalism Cannot
      Alienable Rights of Women
      Holding Out for a Hero
      Tale of Two Profiles
      Racism We All Carry
      Tragedy. Call. Compassion. Response.
      Bad Feminist: Take One
      Bad Feminist: Take Two.
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