Bad Feminist
Cover of Bad Feminist: Essays, 2014. First edition.
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| Author | Roxane Gay |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Essays |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Harper Perennial |
| Media type | Print, e-book |
| Pages | 336 pp |
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Bad Feminist: Essays is a 2014 collection of essays by cultural critic, novelist and professor Roxane Gay. Bad Feminist explores being a feminist while loving things that could seem to go against feminist ideology through essays that explore pop culture and Gay's personal experiences, covering topics as vast as the Sweet Valley High series, Django Unchained, and Gay's own upbringing as a Haitian-American.
It was one of two books published by Gay in 2014, the other being her novel An Untamed State.
Gay was praised for her "wry and delightful voice."The Boston Globe wrote that "there is much to admire," such as her "insightful" essay "What We Hunger For," Bad Feminist "signals an important contribution to the complicated terrain of gender politics."The Huffington Post was more effusive in its praise, writing, "Gay's essays expertly weld her personal experiences with broader gender trends occurring politically and in popular culture," and gave it an 8/10 rating. The Boston Review wrote that "Bad Feminist surveys culture and politics from the perspective of one of the most astute critics writing today." In the United Kingdom's The Guardian, critic Kira Cochrane wrote, "While online discourse is often characterised by extreme, polarised opinions, her writing is distinct for being subtle and discursive, with an ability to see around corners, to recognise other points of view while carefully advancing her own. In print, on Twitter and in person, Gay has the voice of the friend you call first for advice, calm and sane as well as funny, someone who has seen a lot and takes no prisoners."
Time magazine dubbed Bad Feminist “a manual on how to be human” and called Gay the “gift that keeps on giving.” In a 2014 interview with the magazine, Gay explained her role as a feminist and how it has influenced her writing: “In each of these essays, I’m very much trying to show how feminism influences my life for better or worse. It just shows what it’s like to move through the world as a woman. It’s not even about feminism per se, it’s about humanity and empathy.”
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