| Description |
xiv, 320 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Feel me. See me. Hear me. Reach me. -- Peculiar benefits -- Typical first year professor -- To scratch, claw or grope clumsily or frantically -- How to be friends with another woman -- Girls, girls, girls -- I was once Miss America -- Garish, glorious spectacles -- Not here to make friends -- How we all lose -- Reaching for catharsis: getting fat right (or wrong) and Diana Spechler's Skinny -- The Smooth surfaces of idyll -- The Careless language of sexual violence -- What we hunger for -- The Illusion of safety/the safety of illusion -- The Spectacle of broken men -- A Tale of three coming out stories -- Beyond the measure of men -- Some jokes are funnier than others -- Dear young ladies who love Chris Brown so much they would let him beat them-- Blurred lines, indeed -- The Trouble with Prince Charming, or he who trespassed against us -- The Solace of preparing fried foods and other quaint rememberances from 1960s Mississippi: thoughts on The Help -- Surviving Django -- Beyond the struggle narrative -- The Morality of Tyler Perry -- The Last day of a young black man -- When less is more -- The Politics of respectability -- When Twitter does what journalism cannot -- The Alienable rights of women -- Holding out for a hero -- A Tale of two profiles -- The Racism we all carry -- Tragedy. Call. Compassion. Response. -- Bad feminist: take one -- Bad feminist: take two. |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Culture.
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| ISBN |
9780062282712 pbk. |
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