Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Feministis 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.
Title: Bad Feminist Essays
Author(s): Gay Roxane
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062282712
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/5/2014