Bad Feminist - Essays

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. Roxane Gay--one of the most-watched and original young cultural observers of her generation--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. Freshman Common Read: UCLA, Virginia Wesleyan College, Salem State University

About the author

Roxane Gay is the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist; the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize; the New York Times bestselling memoir Hunger; and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti. A contributing opinion writer to the New York Times, for which she also writes the “Work Friend” column, she has written for Time, McSweeney’s, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, and Oxford American, among many other publications. Her work has also been selected for numerous Best anthologies, including Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 and Best American Mystery Stories 2014. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. In 2018 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and holds the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University’s Institute for Women’s Leadership.

Product details

• Authors: Roxane Gay
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2024
• EAN: 9780063388291
• ISBN: 978-0-06-338829-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, HUMOR: Form / Essays, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: AMERICAN HISTORY & SOCIETY, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Essays, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/MEMOIR, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: SOCIAL SCIENCE, LGBTQ STUDIES: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, LGBTQ STUDIES: SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: WOMEN'S STUDIES, LITERATURE: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: GENDER, WOMEN'S STUDIES: THEORY, LITERARY CRITICISM: Feminist, LITERATURE: CULTURAL STUDIES