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A New York Times Bestseller A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive A Penguin Classic For 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, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Dorothy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, Eileen Myles, Mona Eltahawy, bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Cherríe 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.

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Author:   Roxane Gay
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Dimensions:   Width: 12.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.442kg
ISBN:  

9780143110392

ISBN 10:   014311039
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   25 March 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction by Roxane Gay A Note on the Text   THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER Part I: Laying a Foundation “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” by Kimberlé Crenshaw “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh Derailing for Dummies by Unknown “No More Miss America” by Various “Feminism Is So Last Week” by Jessica Valenti “Women’s March Guiding Vision and Definition of Principles” by Various Part II: Early Feminist Texts “Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex” by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa A Serious Proposal to the Ladies by Marie Astell A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important Laws concerning Women; Together with a Few Observations Thereon by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon “Are Women a Class?” by Lillie Devereux Blake “The Yellow Wall- aper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Higher Education of Women” by Anna Julia Cooper “On Women’s Right to Vote” by Susan B. Anthony “The Black and White of It (from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases)” by Ida B. Wells Part III: Multicultura lPerspectives “Under Western Eyes” by Chandra Talpade Mohanty “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?: Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and its Others” by Lila Abu- ughod “Why Do They Hate Us?” (from Headscarves and Hymens) by Mona Eltahawy “La Guera” by Cherríe Moraga “La Prieta” by Gloria E. Anzaldúa “Growing Up as a Brown Girl: My Chonga Manifesto” by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez “I Am Woman” by Lee Maracle “Sovereignty of the Soul: Exploring the Intersection of Rape Law Reform and Federal Indian Law” by Sarah Deer Part IV: Feminist Labors “The Laugh of the Medusa” by Hélène Cixous “The Politics of Housework” by Pat Mainardi “I Want a Wife” by Judy (Syfers) Brady “Women and the Myth of Consumerism” by Ellen Willis “A Question of Class” by Dorothy Allison “The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist” by the Guerilla Girls “Men Explain Things to Me” by Rebecca Solnit   Part V: Gender Considerations “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist- Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century” by Donna J. Haraway “The Woman- Identified Woman” by Radicalesbians “Women Like Me” by Wendy Rose “We Are All Works in Progress” by Leslie Feinberg “Girl” by Alexander Chee “Gender Outlaw” by Kate Bornstein “Being Female” by Eileen Myles “Volcano Dreams” by Gabrielle Bellot Part VI: Black Feminism(s) “The Combahee River Collective Statement” by Various “Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex” by Angela Y. Davis and Cassandra Shaylor “The Uses of Anger” by Audre Lorde “Holding My Sister’s Hand” by bell hooks “In the Name of Beauty” by Tressie McMillan Cottom “The Problem with Sass” by Brittney Cooper “The Meaning of Serena Williams” by Claudia Rankine “Black Girls Don’t Get to Be Depressed” by Samantha Irby Part VII: Sexual Politics “Manifesto of the 343 Sluts” by Simone de Beauvoir “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” by Gayle S. Rubin “The Sexual Geopolitics of Popular Culture and Transnational Black Feminism” by Janell Hobson “Rape Joke” by Patricia Lockwood “If Men Could Menstruate” by Gloria Steinem “Assume the Position” by Patricia Hill Collins “Hooters Chicken” by Lizz Huerta “I Used to Give Men Mercy” by Terese Mailhot “Happy Hookers” by Melissa Gira Grant “Your Ass or Mine” by Virginie Despentes “To the Man Who Shouted ‘I Like Pork Fried Rice’ at Me on the Street” by Franny Choi Part VIII: Feminist Praxis “Ecofeminism: Toward Global Justice and Planetary Health” by Greta Gaard and Lori Gruen “Gendered Geographies and Narrative Markings” by Mishuana Goeman “Slow” by Susan Stinson “Feminism and Disability” by Jenny Morris “Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability” by Susan Wendell “Sick Woman Theory” by Johanna Hedva “Making Space Accessible Is an Act of Love for Our Communities” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna- Amarasinha Part IX: Looking Back, Looking Ahead “Sisterhood Is Powerful” by Susan Brownmiller “Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness” by Sara Ahmed Acknowledgments Suggestions for Further Reading/ Watching/ Seeing/ Listening Credits

Reviews

“Roxane Gay could give a masterclass on writing well-crafted introductions… this book has some bangers.” —Book Riot “The Portable Feminist Reader provides essential intersectional perspectives that not only support women—they serve as a direct repudiation of the sexist, racist, xenophobic currents sweeping across the U.S. All women are not yet free, but Gay reminds us that feminists have the collective power to create a more inclusive and equitable future. The work continues.” —The Chicago Review of Books “It’s up to all of us to remember why we devote a month to the accomplishments and sacrifices of women throughout history. This volume, featuring pieces from authors including Dorothy Allison, Eileen Myles and bell hooks, celebrates feminist scholarship and offers up a modern vision of the feminist canon.” —The Seattle Times “This book makes feminism urgent, perhaps more than ever before. (…) Worth picking up for Gay’s introspective yet inclusive introduction alone, this new collection provides accessible entry points into feminism and offers even advanced scholars new ways of viewing the complex, intersectional histories of feminist thought, literature, and action.” —Starred Library Journal “[An] excellent, expansive collection. (…) Readers will be engrossed by this dynamic and engaging collection.” —Booklist “With its capacious perspective, the collection speaks to a range of feminist concerns, past, present, and future. (…) A timely, spirited collection.” —Kirkus Review “This volume includes newer feminist classics chosen by the incomparable Roxane Gay. From Anna Julia Cooper and Cherríe Moraga to Mona Eltahawy and Sara Ahmed, the pieces here expand the canon just when we need it most.” —Ms. Magazine

Author Information

Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity.

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