The Portable Feminist Reader

Resumen del libro

A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitiveA Penguin ClassicFor Roxane Gay, a feminist canon is subjective and always evolving. A feminist canon represents a long history of feminist scholarship, embraces skepticism, and invites robust discussion and debate. Selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices include Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, Anna Julia Cooper, Kimberl Crenshaw, Dorothy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, Eileen Myles, Mona Eltahawy, bell hooks, Sarah Ahmed, Cherrie Moraga, Audre Lorde, The Guerrilla Girls, and many more. With an introduction, headnotes, and an inspired list of multimedia recommendations, Roxane Gay presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism. Through the Portable Feminist Reader, readers explore the state of American feminism, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in practice, as a complex, contradictory, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought.

Biografía del autor

Roxane Gay es escritora feminista de narrativa y ensayo, editora, profesora de Lengua Inglesa en la Universidad de Purdue, columnista del " New York Times " y fundadora de la editorial independiente Tiny Hardcore Press. Su ensayo " Mala feminista " , al que siguió " Hambre: Memoria de mi cuerpo " , fue bestseller del " New York Times " y le valió renombre internacional. Como novelista, ha publicado la novela " An Untamed State " y la colección de relatos " Ayiti " . También es la autora del cómic " World of Wakanda " para Marvel.