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The Portable Feminist Reader
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From writer and cultural critic Roxane Gay, a dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive
With selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices and an introduction, headnotes, and an inspired list of multimedia recommendations, Roxane Male lover presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism. Through the Portable Feminist Reader, readers explore the state of American feminism, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in training, as a complex, contradictory, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought.
About Roxane
With One “N”
Roxane Gay is The New York Times-bestselling author of The Bad Feminist and other books and publications, a professor, editor, and social commentator.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is a writer, editor, and professor. She is the storyteller of several bestselling books including Bad Feminist, Hunger, Difficult Women, and Opinions A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business. She is also the author of the Eisner Award winning World of Wakanda for Marvel and the editor of Best American Short Stories 2018. Her brief stories and essays can be found in Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the editor of an eponymous imprint at Grove Atlantic. In 2018, she won a Guggenheim fellowship. She is also the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and working on several books and clip and television projects. Her newsletter, The Audacity, is hosted at Substack.
Roxane Gay is best known for her troubled, headstrong, and unconventional women in Bad Feminist and most recently, Difficult Women. Her memoir, Hunger, was recently listed among Washington Post‘s 5 Best Memoirs of 2017. In aBy the Book feature in TheNew York Times, Gay shared her latest book picks. Here are just a few of her recommendations.
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
“She is one of my favorite writers, and I loved the ambitious, almost too ambitious, narrative structure of the novel and these short-lived worlds she kept building and tearing down to move the story forward.” – Roxane Gay
Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how a chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children deeply interested. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows between them.
I Am a Magical Teenage Princess by Luke Geddes
“One of my favorite books not many people have heard of is ‘I Am a Magical Teenage Princess.’ It’s this amazing collection of short stories that is sharp and d