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Title:
Not that bad : dispatches from rape culture
Author:
Gay, Roxanne editor.
ISBN:
9780062413512

9780062851468
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY :

Harper Perennial,

[2018]
Physical Description:
xii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Fragments / Slaughterhouse Island / & the truth is, I have no story / The luckiest MILF in Brooklyn / Spectator: my family, my rapist, and mourning online / The sun / Sixty-three days / Only the lonely / What I told myself / Stasis / The ways we are taught to be a girl / Floccinaucinihilipilification / The life ruiner / All the angry women / Good girls / Utmost resistance: law and the queer woman or How I sat in a classroom and listened to my male classmates debate how to define force and consent / Bodies against borders / Wiping the stain clean / What we didn't say / I said yes / Knowing better / Not that loud: quiet encounters with rape culture / Why I stopped / Picture perfect / To get out from under it / Reaping what rape culture sows: live from the killing fields of growing up female in America / Invisible light waves / Getting home / Why I didn't say no
Abstract:
Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are "routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked, shamed, gaslit, insulted, bullied" for speaking out. Contributions include essays from established and up-and-coming writers, performers, and critics, including actors Ally Sheedy and Gabrielle Union and writers Amy Jo Burns, Lyz Lenz, and Claire Schwartz. Covering a wide range of topics and experiences, from an exploration of the rape epidemic embedded in the refugee crisis to first-person accounts of child molestation, this collection is often deeply personal and is always unflinchingly honest.
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