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Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay

  • 324 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2014
  • 15 editions
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1 About this book

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 at odds with feminist ideology. Gay's essays engage pop culture and her personal experiences, covering topics such as the Sweet Valley High series, Django Unchained, and Gay's own upbringing as a Haitian-American.

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Good for readers who want: essays and feminism.

  • Essays
  • Social science
  • Conduct of life
  • Anecdotes
  • Popular culture
  • Feminism
  • Women
  • Women, conduct of life

2 About Roxane Gay

Born 1974

Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017).

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