Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Perennial, [2014]
©2014
©2014
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xiv, 320 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780062282712, 0062282719, 9780062443588 99975510305, 0062443585, 9780062282712, 0062282719
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched cultural observers of her generation. In these essays, the author takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman of color while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the 2010s (Girls, Django Unchained) and commenting on the state of feminism (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture. This book takes a look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and serves as a call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better
CONTENTS
Feminism (n.): Plural --
Feel me, see me, hear me, reach me --
Peculiar benefits --
Typical first year professor --
To scratch, claw, or grope clumsily or frantically --
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 --
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 --
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 --
Bad feminist : take one --
Bad feminist : take two