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Cargando... Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culturepor Roxane Gay
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I did have to stop reading. It was engaging and interesting and well put together, but I was having a hard time living with all that awful truth. ( ) oh wow these essays are almost all perfect and incredible and so well done. i didn't love every single one of these, but almost. this is just stunning. the way these essays talk about so much that makes up rape culture and the profound ramifications of sexual violence, without really talking too much about the specifics of these people's histories, is much more powerful and much less gross than giving those details would be. what matters is that it happened and how it affected these people, not the details. (the details matter, of course, but they shouldn't to a reader.) these essays are incredible. Articulate women and 2 men describe what rape and sexual aggression and living in society devaluing women as a basic of it's culture and economy does to lives and quality of living. These are the women who do understand what they lived through, what killed off part of them even while they are called survivors, while they are called lucky to be alive, and can wrap words around all the colossal wrong that starts with boys will be boys, which is better in every way than being girls. Yes, IT IS THAT BAD! This was a great book. There are 30 essays from a wide variety of people across the boundaries of race, gender, and sexuality. They're all wholly moving and deeply frustrating. One recurring thought I had as I read through these essays was how very well-chosen the title is. Not That Bad is a phrase seen in so many of them, over and over the authors speak of trying to rationalize away what happened to them. It's not that bad. Others have it worse. At least I'm alive. Those concepts come up a lot. In their own thoughts, as well as in the things people said to them. Overall, I feel like Roxane Gay achieved her purpose, which was to give people a chance to share their experiences, to give name and shape to a greater concept of 'rape culture' by allowing each author to share how it affected them. There were a few pieces that I resonated with me really strongly. One was "I Said Yes" by Anthony Frame. As most of the essays are by women, Anthony Frame's piece stood out to me because it touched on how men and boys interact when women aren't around. The choices of these stories didn't make me feel compassion for any rapists or anything ridiculous like that, but it did make me feel very sad, because that disgusting, degrading way of engaging with sexuality that so many boys and men accept is only further isolating, for them and for everyone who comes in contact with it. They couldn't find the words within themselves to express love for other men, even when they felt it so deeply it ate them up inside. They needed violence, maybe even the degradation of women by sharing a sex partner or watching porn, in order to feel close to another male. The strength of his essay was in exposing that. Another that I found really strong was Michelle Chen's (Bodies About Borders) about the pervasive nature of sexual abuse within migrant communities and how sexual abuse is considered the price paid by women and children in order to leave the danger of their home. All of them made me think. All of them made me want to work harder to make the world a better place. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: New York Times Bestseller Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. Vogue, "10 of the Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2018" * Harper's Bazaar, "10 New Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2018" * Elle, "21 Books We're Most Excited to Read in 2018" * Boston Globe, "25 books we can't wait to read in 2018" * Huffington Post, "60 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018" * Hello Giggles, "19 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018" * Buzzfeed, "33 Most Exciting New Books of 2018" In this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author 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, Claire Schwartz, and Bob Shacochis. 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. Like Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, Not That Bad will resonate with every reader, saying "something in totality that we cannot say alone." Searing and heartbreakingly candid, this provocative collection both reflects the world we live in and offers a call to arms insisting that "not that bad" must no longer be good enough. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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