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Bad Feminist, (Paperback)

Name: Bad Feminist, (Paperback)
Brand: Roxane Gay
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Bad Feminist, (Paperback)Bad Feminist Paperback 9780062282712

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Literary Recognition: A New York Times Bestseller, this book was also recognized as a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Boston Globe, Newsweek, and Oprah.com, among others.
Publication Details: This paperback edition, authored by Harper Perennial, was published on August 5, 2014, and contains 336 pages.
Author's Insight: Roxane Gay is praised for her ability to interweave personal experiences with bewildering cultural moments, demonstrating a consistently thoughtful and passionate perspective.
Essay Collection: The book features a collection of essays that delve into politics, criticism, and feminism, written by a prominent cultural observer.
Cultural Commentary: Gay's essays offer a sharp, funny, and insightful look at how consumed culture shapes identity, serving as an inspiring call to action for societal improvement.
Feminist Exploration: The essays trace Gay's evolution as a woman of color, while also examining contemporary culture and the current state of feminism.

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Hardcover
Fiction/nonfiction
Non-Fiction
Publication date
August, 2014
Pages
336
Reading level
Preschool
Subgenre
Essays

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"Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there." -- Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?

A New York Times Bestseller

Best Book of the Year: NPR - Boston Globe - Newsweek - Time Out New York - Oprah.com - Miami Herald - Book Riot - Buzz Feed - Globe and Mail (Toronto) - The Root - Shelf Awareness

A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched cultural observers of her generation

In these funny and insightful essays, 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, coming from one of our most interesting and important cultural critics.

Publishers Weekly,This trenchant collection assembles previously published essays and new work by cultural critic and novelist Gay (An Untamed State). Even though she loves pink, feels nostalgic about the Sweet Valley High series, and lets degrading rap lyrics blast from her car stereo, Gay is passionately committed to feminist issues, such as equal opportunity and pay and reproductive freedom. Writing about race, politics, gender, feminism, privilege, and popular media, she highlights how deeply misogyny is embedded in our culture, the careless language used to discuss sexual violence (seen in news reports of sexual assault), Hollywood's tokenistic treatment of race, the trivialization of literature written by women, and the many ways American society fails women and African-Americans. Gay bemoans that fact that role models like Bill Cosby and Don Lemon urge African-Americans to act like ideal citizens while glossing over institutional problems in the education, social welfare, and justice system that exacerbate racism and poverty. Although Gay is aware of her privilege as a middle-class Haitian-American, she doesn't refrain from advising inner-city students to have higher expectations. Whatever her topic, Gay's provocative essays stand out for their bravery, wit, and emotional honesty. Agent: Maria Massie, Lippincott Massie McQuilkin. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Hardcover

Fiction/nonfiction

Non-Fiction

Genre

Political & Social Sciences

Publication date

August, 2014

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