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Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay

Finish date: February 15, 2015

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Sep 12, 2016 s_evan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: essays, autobiographies-memoirs, by-lgbtq, non-fiction, audio-version

I wrote an initial more critical review (having listened to the entire book) but then I looked back over the paper version and had to delete it.

The breadth of this collection of essays, along with many of the astute ideas and a really engaging and interesting narrating deserves acclaim. What becomes hard is my acceptance of what Gay puts forth as what is a feminist and what is a bad feminist - I disagree but that alone should not take away from the work here.

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Dec 29, 2015 Mary rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: format-ebook, read-harder-2016

Read Harder - nonfiction dealing with feminist themes.

This was the last book I read for the 2016 challenge and I definitely finished in a high note. I think I'm now a fan of the personal essay and I'm definitely a fan of Roxane Gay. Sadly I'm not on Twitter or I'd be getting daily updates on her smart, funny and thought-provoking ideas...

I, too, am a Bad Feminist and I love that Gay and I look a lot different and are a lot different about a whole lot of things (my favorite color is not pink, I ...more

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May 27, 2015 Denise Cormaney rated it it was ok

I really wanted to like this book. A couple of the essays are good, but for the most part she doesn't offer anything new here and she often contradicts herself within the same essay. Disappointing. ...more

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