{"id":347,"date":"2014-12-08T22:12:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T02:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=347"},"modified":"2017-10-31T22:12:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T02:12:44","slug":"recommended-reading-bad-feminist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2014\/12\/08\/recommended-reading-bad-feminist\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended reading: \u201cBad Feminist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

From our neighbors at Harvard Book Store<\/a> (a store wholly unaffiliated with \u2018that school across the river\u2019) come this book\u00a0recommendation from the store staff, ideal for feminist readers and for feminist books-as-gifts-buyers:<\/p>\n

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Bad Feminist
\n<\/a><\/span>essays by Roxane Gay
\n<\/strong>Publisher: Harper Perennial
\nPublication Date: 2014-08-05
\nISBN 9780062282712
\nList Price $15.99
\nHarvard Book Store price: $12.79<\/strong><\/p>\n

Description: A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. \u201cPink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink\u2014all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I\u2019m not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.\u201d In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture. Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better.<\/p>\n

For more about the author, check out her website<\/a> and find her on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From our neighbors at Harvard Book Store (a store wholly unaffiliated with \u2018that school across the river\u2019) come this book\u00a0recommendation from the store staff, ideal for feminist readers and for feminist books-as-gifts-buyers: Bad Feminist essays by Roxane Gay Publisher: Harper Perennial Publication Date: 2014-08-05 ISBN 9780062282712 List Price $15.99 Harvard Book Store price: $12.79 Description: … Continue reading Recommended reading: \u201cBad Feminist\u201d<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71],"tags":[434,428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}