Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay

Bad Feminist: Essays Roxane Gay ebook
ISBN: 9780062282712
Page: 336
Format: pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

May 24, 2014 - Trigger warnings: bad for feminism, bad for intellectual culture. It's an understatement to say that feminism has a bad rap. As it happens, Nat Torkington linked to this essay on the O'Reilly Radar blog back in 2006, prompted by danah boyd, who had referenced it in a mailing list discussion. This is a shame because The theory that women are not to blame for their bad situations is crucial here because women have always been told that they are unhappy or faring badly in life because they are stupid, weak, mad, hysterical, having a period, pregnant, frigid, over-sexed, asking for it etc. Famously said this in the 90s, and the sentiment still rings as true in the ears of many today. Jan 30, 2014 - As the power and control of white feminist gatekeepers diminish, they have rushed to individualize women of color's critiques. Let's look at a few explanations for this fallacy. Jan 15, 2014 - If there are any remaining white feminists who still believe Beyoncé is doing a bad job of representing the movement, we're sorry to announce that the superstar has recently published a spot-on essay about gender inequality. Jul 6, 2009 - But that should not blind us to the other risk — the danger outlined above by Freeman for feminists in 1970: that in our zeal to avoid bad structure, we open advocates begin to pretend that there is no structure, or no need for structure. I'm in good company—Beyoncé has become very public about her feminism. Posted by Poverty myths, busted: how the vicious backlash against an essay that went viral illuminates how little most Americans know about being poor. Jan 27, 2008 - 'The personal is political' is one of those phrases that feminists tend to bounce around a lot, but not that many people seem to have read Hanisch's essay. Sep 30, 2012 - They form debate teams to discuss the pros and cons of the topic, write essays or poems, research articles, and so on. Apr 8, 2014 - All these years later, as a married mom of two kids, I still consider myself a feminist. Dec 20, 2012 - One of the biggest myth about feminism is that it hates men - a myth that too many people believe unfortunately and one that turns off people who agree with the tenants of feminism. So why do so many people think feminism = man-hating?