Bad Feminist
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher 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 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.
Customer Reviews
3.5 rounded up to 4
Published in 2014, this is a book very much of its time. I’m curious how some of her thoughts on certain topics have changed in the last ten years.
Ingratiating
Really really really disappointed. I read Hunger by the same author and it was delightful; insightful and full of revelations. This book is anything but. There’s a whole chapter on competitive scrabble. It just seems like a nerdy bully punching down on rural America. Annoying and I know Roxane Gay has better books out there.
DO NOT BUY
The woman who reads this book does so in a monotone manner, that I was convinced Siri was reading it. Even the funny jokes and satire make you cringe when she reads them. And monotone white woman saying “brotha’” or “sista” Will make your skin crawl. Apparently there is no way to get a refund, so do not buy this get the actual book