Bad feminist : essays
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062282712 (paperback) :
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Physical Description:
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xiv, 320 pages ; 21 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2014.
- Copyright: ©2014.
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- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 2 / 5.0
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction. Feminism (n.): Plural -- Me. Feel me, see me, hear me, reach me ; Peculiar benefits ; Typical first year professor ; To scratch, claw or grope clumsily or frantically -- Gender & sexuality/ 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 ; A 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 ; The trouble with Prince Charming, or, He who trespassed against us -- Race & entertainment. 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 -- Politics, gender & race. 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 -- Back to me. Bad feminist : take one ; Bad feminist : take two. |
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Subject: | Gay, Roxane -- Anecdotes Feminism Popular culture Women -- Conduct of life -- Anecdotes Race awareness in motion pictures African Americans in mass media Essays |
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