Confesiones de una Mala Feminista = Bad Feminist

Author: Gay
Publisher: Planeta Publishing
ISBN: 9786070739484
Category : Social Science
Languages : es
Pages : 298

Book Description
La lucha por los derechos de las mujeres ha tomado el mundo por asalto, pero �por qu� muchas de sus simpatizantes caen en tantas contradicciones? �Por qu� parece haber tantas malas feministas? Roxane Gay, profesora universitaria, colaboradora de The New York Times, ensayista y novelista con m�s de un mill�n de visitas en su charla TED sobre feminismo, tiene algunas respuestas a esas preguntas. La pluma de Gay, filosa como una catana, explora la cultura pop para extraer verdades inc�modas acerca de c�mo somos representados en el cine, la televisi�n y la literatura. Con un estilo a veces �cido y corrosivo, otras �ntimo y personal, pero siempre potente y cr�tico, Roxane atraviesa el entretenimiento masivo: desde Cincuenta sombras de Grey hasta Los juegos del hambre; sin olvidar a Quentin Tarantino y Orange is The New Black, para rescatar valiosas lecciones e inc�modas verdades sobre la discriminaci�n, el privilegio y la frustraci�n de querer un mundo m�s justo. Sus ensayos no exigen la credencial de �feminista� para ser le�dos. Son una invitaci�n abierta a analizar el entorno en el que estamos inmersos bajo la promesa de que, despu�s de leerlos, creer�s firmemente que, como dice la propia Roxane, �tenemos el derecho al mismo respeto�. �Es incompatible querer ser independiente y a la vez ansiar que cuiden de ti, que te gusta la m�sica reggaeton pero te revuelva por dentro lo machista de algunas de sus letras?

Bad Feminist

Author: Roxane Gay
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062282727
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 371

Book Description
“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.” — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be? A New York Times Bestseller Best Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe • Newsweek • Time Out New York • Oprah.com • Miami Herald • Book Riot • Buzz Feed • Globe and Mail (Toronto) • The Root • Shelf Awareness A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched cultural observers of her generation In these funny and insightful essays, 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, coming from one of our most interesting and important cultural critics.

Mala feminista

Author: Roxane Gay
Publisher: CAPITÁN SWING LIBROS
ISBN: 8412219252
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : es
Pages : 349

Book Description
Cuando la escritora Roxane Gay se autodenominó –de broma– "mala feminista", reconocía que no podía cumplir con los requisitos de perfección del movimiento feminista. Mala feminista es un conjunto de ensayos ácidos sobre el feminismo en la cultura moderna, y una aguda y divertida reflexión sobre cómo la forma en que consumimos la cultura nos convierte en lo que somos; siempre con tono autocrítico y consciente del papel de la mujer –así como de su relación con los hombres y con las demás mujeres– en nuestros días, a través de su propia experiencia, y de las dinámicas políticas y culturales recientes. Para ella vivimos en un mundo apasionante, lleno de distracciones que nos gustan y que nos obsesionan, incluso si van en contra de nuestros principios. Le gusta la música rap, aunque es consciente de los clichés sexistas de muchos de sus autores. También le gusta el cine absurdo, el color rosa, engancharse a series como Girls y leer la revista Vogue. Mediante ejemplos de la cultura pop y de su propia vida, Gay nos habla del aborto, de la maternidad, del acoso sexual, de la igualdad de salarios, de los mitos sobre la amistad entre mujeres, de la reciente literatura escrita por ellas, de la misoginia en el mundo del espectáculo, etc. El feminismo, como la humanidad y la vida, es imperfecto, y la autora propone que aceptemos todos sus matices.

Women's Writing in Colombia

Author: Cherilyn Elston
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319432613
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Winner of the Montserrat Ordóñez Prize 2018 This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian women’s writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding women and gender are often sidelined in the academic arena, it argues that feminism has been an important and intrinsic part of contemporary Colombian history. Focusing on understudied literary and non-literary texts written by Colombian women, it traces the particularities of Colombian feminism, showing how it has been closely entwined with left-wing politics and the country’s history of violence. This book therefore rethinks the place of feminism in Latin American history and its relationship to feminisms elsewhere, challenging many of the predominant critical paradigms used to understand Latin American literature and culture.

Shrill

Author: Lindy West
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784295547
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Lindy West wasn't always loud. She was once a nerdy, overweight teen who wanted nothing more than to be invisible. Fortunately for women everywhere, along the road she found her voice, and that cripplingly shy girl, who refused to make a sound, somehow grew up to be one of the loudest, shrillest, most fearless feminazis on the internet. Here, she recounts how she went from being the butt of people's jokes, to telling her own brand of jokes - ones that carry with them with a serious message and aren't at someone else's expense.

Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature

Author: B. Sifuentes-Jáuregui
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230107281
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
This book is about transvestism and the performance of gender in Latin American literature and culture. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui explores the figure of the transvestite and his/her relation to the body through a series of canonical Latin American texts. By analyzing works by Alejo Carpentier, José Donoso, Severo Sarduy and Manuel Puig (author of Kiss of the Spiderwoma n), alongside critical works in gender studies and queer theory, Sifuentes-Jáuregui shows how transvestism operates not only to destabilize, but often to affirm sexual, gender, national and political identities.

Anarchism in Latin America

Author: Ángel J. Cappelletti
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 1849352836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti's wide-ranging, country-by-country historical overview of anarchism's social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations is the first book-length regional history ever published in English. With a foreword by the translator. Ángel J. Cappelletti (1927–1995) was an Argentinian philosopher who taught at Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela. He is the author of over forty works primarily investigating philosophy and anarchism. Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University.

Divination on stage

Author: Folke Gernert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110695758
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.

'Los Invisibles'

Author: Richard Cleminson
Publisher: University of Wales
ISBN: 0708320120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
Examining the social, medical and cultural history of male homosexuality in Spain, this book looks at it from the time homosexuality came to be an issue of medical, legal and cultural concern. Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing research which concentrates on literature and literary figures, "Los Invisibles" focuses on the change in cultural representation of same-sex activity of through medicalisation, social and political anxieties about race and the late emergence of homosexual sub-cultures in the last quarter of the twentieth century. As such, this book constitutes an analysis of discourses and ideas from a social history and medical history position. Much of the research for the book was supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust to research the medicalisation of homosexuality in Spain.

Punkzilla

Author: Adam Rapp
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 076365258X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
An award-winning writer and playwright hits the open road for a searing novel-in-letters about a street kid on a highstakes trek across America. For a runaway boy who goes by the name "Punkzilla," kicking a meth habit and a life of petty crime in Portland, Oregon, is a prelude to a mission: reconnecting with his older brother, a gay man dying of cancer in Memphis. Against a backdrop of seedy motels, dicey bus stations, and hitched rides, the desperate fourteen-year-old meets a colorful, sometimes dangerous cast of characters. And in letters to his sibling, he catalogs them all -- from an abusive stranger and a ghostly girl to a kind transsexual and an old woman with an oozing eye. The language is raw and revealing, crackling with visceral details and dark humor, yet with each interstate exit Punkzilla’s journey grows more urgent: will he make it to Tennessee in time? This daring novel offers a narrative worthy of Kerouac and a keen insight into the power of chance encounters.