Bad feminist : essays
Record details
- ISBN: 0062282719
- ISBN: 9780062282712
- ISBN: 0062443585
- ISBN: 9780062443588
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Physical Description:
xiv, 320 pages ; 21 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction. Feminism (n.): Plural -- Me : -- Feel me, see me, hear me, reach me -- Peculiar benefits -- Typical first year professor -- To scratch, claw or grope clumsily or frantically ; -- Gender & sexuality : -- How to be friends with another woman -- Girls, girls, girls -- I once was Miss America -- Garish, glorious spectacles -- Not here to make friends -- How we all lose -- Reaching for catharsis : getting fat right (or wrong) and Diana Spechler's "Skinny" -- The smooth surfaces of idyll -- The careless language of sexual violence -- What we hunger for -- The illusion of safety/the safety of illusion -- The spectacle of broken men -- A tale of three coming out stories -- Beyond the measure of men -- Some jokes are funnier than others -- Dear young ladies who love Chris Brown -- So much they would let him beat them -- Blurred lines, indeed -- The trouble with Prince Charming, or, He who trespassed against us ; -- Race & entertainment : -- The solace of preparing fried foods and other quaint remembrances from 1960s Mississippi : thoughts on "The help" -- Surviving "Django" -- Beyond the struggle narrative -- The morality of Tyler Perry -- The last day of a young black man -- When less is more ; -- Politics, gender & race : -- The politics of respectability -- When Twitter does what journalism cannot -- The alienable rights of women -- Holding out for a hero -- A tale of two profiles -- The racism we all carry -- Tragedy, call, compassion, response ; -- Back to me ; -- Bad feminist : take one -- Bad feminist : take two. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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Burlington Public Library | 814.6 GAY 2014 | 39851001487769 | Non-fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |