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The Portable Feminist Reader
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The Portable Feminist Reader

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"Feminist skepticism of a canon is healthy. To Gay, a feminist canon is subjective and always evolving, and represents a long history of feminist scholarship. Ten years after her New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay edits The Portable Feminist Reader for Penguin Classics, an anthology of texts that are diverse in feminist thought, strikingly relevant, and dynamic. Sixty-five selections include ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices. Traditional scholarship sits with personal essays and poetry. With insightful headnotes, Gay provides context for writings on multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, Black feminism, and more. With this anthology, Gay invites readers to examine the state of feminism, what feminism looks like in practice, and its successes and failures. Gay invites readers to join in conversation with the long and growing line of historical and contemporary feminist thought, and to talk of canon, which always remains complex and contradictory, as expansive rather than definitive"--
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-14-311039-2
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatTrade paperback (US)
Publishing date18/02/2025
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 129 mm, Height 197 mm, Thickness 28 mm
Weight463 g
Article no.28921115
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A35095289
Product groupBU720
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Roxane Gay's writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, 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. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity.

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