Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. “I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.”“I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.”Ugh. I hold James Baldwin, Virginia Woolf, DFW, and Susan Sontag up as the ultimate essayists, so perhaps the problem is one of expectation?
by BAD FEMINIST ESSAYS.
Furthermore, I realize that essays can explore topics without coming to any definitive answers or conclusions, but I want more than an introduction to a problem. Roxane Gay moved me in a way that I haven't been moved in quite a while with this collection of essays, ostensibly umbrella'd under the topic of feminism.
I’m not trying to be an example. Being a feminist icon is not on her mission statement.
I'll be returning to this audio collection of essays on much more than "just" feminism. by Roxane Gay.
Published In reality, only about a third of the essays directly address feminism; Gay also addresses race, culture, and Scrabble competitions. Anyone wanting a modern interpretation of 'feminism'. I had high expectations for this book. .” meme several months ago. It is awe-inspiring to go for a ride inside Roxane Gay's head and heart. I was naive enough to assume that was all there to it.I finally finished this audiobook, after a kinda unofficial semi-hiatus from it (well, reading in general, to be fair) while on the plane to San Francisco, a town that some random guy on a plane once called "too liberal". Yes! I live in Mexico and found it in Sanborns with the title "Confesiones de una maa feminista" published by Planeta.
Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. So much I could relate to, but also so much that I'd never thought about. No Comments Yet Although the title can be somewhat misleading—she’s more of an inconsistent or conflicted feminist—the author does her best to make up for any feminist flaws by addressing, ... Review Posted Online: June 17, 2014.
Rather, it is a combination memoir and extension of She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. . I am messy. It's not very often that a book causes me to weep uncontrollably in public, but this book did.
I bought the audio for 30-some dollars and figured it might be a great listen.
I don't understand why people like this book. The title is intriguing, the cover is attractive, and the back cover blurbs were promising. Bad Feminist isn't the ultimate feminist manifesto and it doesn't try to be. An occasionally brilliant, hit-or-miss grab bag of pop-culture criticism. No Comments Yet 4.4 out of 5 stars.
Even though I didn't care for labels, I didn't mind this one: I did believe in equal rights for women.
by How did a socio-political movement founded on the principles of empowerment and equal rights become reduced to “disgusting man-haters”? Thumbs up. A 3 or 4 page essay on the "women's fiction" debacle? Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry The title is intriguing, the cover is attractive, and the back cover blurbs were promising. So, appropriate timing? It's equal parts commentary, memoir, and critical analysis. But I find myself dreading listening.HAVE to read something by this remarkable woman who just pulled out of her next new book contract as protest over the horrific contract given to the racist (Black Lives Matter as "legal hate group"), sexist ("feminism is cancer") Milo Yiannopoulos out of the Breitbart toxic waste dump that produced Trump's main thinker, Steven Bannon.
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