Bad Feminist -- Roxane Gay - Paperback
"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.
Author: Roxane Gay
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 08/05/2014
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780062282712
Award: Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2014 pg. 94
Library Journal 03/15/2014 pg. 94
Publishers Weekly 06/30/2014
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2014
People Weekly 08/25/2014 pg. 43
Shelf Awareness 08/05/2014
Essence 09/01/2014 pg. 78
Library Journal 09/01/2014 pg. 106
Entertainment Weekly 09/05/2014 pg. 69
New York Times Book Review 10/12/2014 pg. 18
New York Times Book Review 10/19/2014 pg. 26
Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 100
Shelf Awareness 12/12/2014
Christian Century 12/10/2014 pg. 24