Bad Feminist

Bonnie Hammer

USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Think of this book as your personal guide for moving into the leadership spot you dream about—without losing yourself in the web of workplace lies and half-truths women too frequently fall for." —Forbes A master class "filled with the wisdom that exponentially transforms your career and life" (Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper), 15 Lies Women Are Told at Work s...

Jacqueline Rose

Women in Dark Timesbegins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon; and film icon Marilyn Monroe. The story of these women, bound together by their struggles against iniquity, blazes a trail across some of the defining features of the twentieth century - revolution, totalitarianism and the American dream - and ...

Oksanen, Sofi

Blending the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists with the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen, "an exquisite feminist critique of Russia's oppressive tactics" (Kirkus Reviews) revealing how modern Russia's history of weaponizing sexual violence plays a crucial role in its current geopolitical strategy "It's one of those books that can truly change a reader's life. . . ....

Caitlin Moran

An Instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller With her signature candor and wit, New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Moran attempts to answer society's weirdly unasked question: What About Men? Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been confronted with the question: "But what about men?" And at first, tbh, she dgaf. Boys, and...

Melissa Petro

In the spirit of Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist comes a courageous, in-depth investigation into the modern epidemic of shame in our society—what it is, why women are uniquely susceptible, and how we can shift the shame off our plates and live our best lives in an over-exposed, image-obsessed world.For millions of women, shame is a vicious predator...

Helen. King

Throughout history, religious scholars, medical men and - occasionally - women themselves, have moulded thought on what 'makes' a woman. She has been called the weaker sex, the fairer sex, the purer sex, among many other monikers. Often, she has been defined simply as 'Not A Man'. Today, we are more aware than ever of the complex relationship between our bodies and our identiti...

Gay, Roxane

En sus tremendamente populares ensayos y en su blog de Tumblr, Roxane Gay ha escrito con intimidad y sensibilidad sobre la comida y el cuerpo, usando sus propias luchas emocionales y psicológicas como una forma de explorar nuestras ansiedades compartidas sobre el placer, el consumo, la apariencia y la salud. Como mujer que describe su propio cuerpo como "salvajemente indiscipli...

Gay, Roxane

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she i...

Gay, Roxane

The debut collection from the vibrant voice of Roxane Gay is a unique blend of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, all interwoven to represent the Haitian diaspora experience. Roxane Gay lives and writes in the Midwest where she is an Assistant Professor at Eastern Illinois University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in NOON, New Stories From the Midwest 2011, Cream City Review...

Gay, Roxane

Cuando la escritora Roxane Gay se autodenominó «mala feminista», se trataba de una broma, reconociendo así que no podía cumplir con los requisitos de la perfección del movimiento feminista. En una charla reflexiva y provocadora nos pide que aceptemos todos los matices del feminismo. Para ella vivimos en un mundo apasionante, lleno de distracciones que nos gustan y que nos obses...