Not that bad : dispatches from rape culture / edited by Roxane Gay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gay, Roxane, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape.

Sexual harassment of women.

Rape--Psychological aspects.

Rape--Sociological aspects.

Rape victims.

Rape--Attitudes.

Rape--Public opinion.

Child sexual abuse.

Rape victims--Psychology.

Sexual abuse victims.

Women--Violence against.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]

Summary:

"In this valuable and timely anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has collected original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are 'routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked, shamed, gaslit, insulted, and bullied' for speaking out. Highlighting the stories of well-known actors, writers, and experts, as well as new voices being published for the first time, Not That Bad covers a wide range of topics and experiences, from an exploration of the rape epidemic embedded in the refugee crisis to first-person accounts of child molestation and street harassment. Often deeply personal and always unflinchingly honest, this provocative collection both reflects the world we live in and offers a call to arms insisting that 'not that bad' must no longer be good enough."--Dust jacket flap.

Contents:

Fragments / Aubrey Hirsch

Slaughterhouse Island / Jill Christman

& the truth is, I have no story / Claire Schwartz

The luckiest MILF in Brooklyn / Lynn Melnick

Spectator: my family, my rapist, and mourning online / Brandon Taylor

The sun / Emma Smith-Stevens

Sixty-three days / AJ McKenna

Only the lonely / Lisa Mecham

What I told myself / Vanessa Mártir

Stasis / Ally Sheedy

The ways we are taught to be a girl / xTx

Floccinaucinihilipilification / So Mayer

The life ruiner / Nora Salem

All the angry women / Lyz Lenz

Good girls / Amy Jo Burns

Utmost resistance: law and the queer woman or How I sat in a classroom and listened to my male classmates debate how to define force and consent / V.L. Seek

Bodies against borders / Michelle Chen

Wiping the stain clean / Gabrielle Union

What we didn't say / Liz Rosema

I said yes / Anthony Frame

Knowing better / Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Not that loud: quiet encounters with rape culture / Miriam Zoila Pérez

Why I stopped / Zoë Medeiros

Picture perfect / Sharisse Tracey

To get out from under it / Stacey May Fowles

Reaping what rape culture sows: live from the killing fields of growing up female in America / Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes

Invisible light waves / Meredith Talusan

Getting home / Nicole Boyce

Why I didn't say no / Elissa Bassist.

Notes:

Lambda Literary Awards - LGBTQ Anthology, Winner, 2019

ISBN:

9780062851468

0062851462

9780062413512

0062413511

OCLC:

1032448960