Bad feminist : essays / Roxane Gay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gay, Roxane, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay, Roxane.

Feminism.

Popular culture.

Gay, Roxane--Anecdotes.

Women--Conduct of life--Anecdotes.

Women.

Race awareness in motion pictures.

African Americans in mass media.

Essays.

Women--Conduct of life.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xiv, 320 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2014.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Designed by Sunil Manchikanti.

Cover design by Robin Bilardello.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has 4 commemorative stamps laid in.

ISBN:

9780062282712 :

0062282719 :

OCLC:

861210005