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Not that bad : dispatches from rape culture

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    Running Time: 09:00 hrs
    Narrator: Roxanne Gay, the authors
    Publisher:
    HarperCollins, 2018
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Contributor: Gay, Roxane
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2018
    Summary:

    Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay presents a collection of essays that explore what it means to live in a world where women are frequently belittled and harassed due to their gender, and offers a call to arms insisting that "not that bad" must no longer be good enough.

    Contents:
    • Fragments / Aubrey Hirsch
    • Slaughterhouse Island / Jill Christman
    • & the truth is, I have no story / Claire Schwartz
    • The luckiest MILF in Brooklyn / Lynn Melnick
    • Spectator: my family, my rapist, and mourning online / Brandon Taylor
    • The sun / Emma Smith-Stevens
    • Sixty-three days / AJ McKenna
    • Only the lonely / Lisa Mecham
    • What I told myself / Vanessa Mártir
    • Stasis / Ally Sheedy
    • The ways we are taught to be a girl / xTx
    • Floccinaucinihilipilification / So Mayer
    • The life ruiner / Nora Salem
    • All the angry women / Lyz Lenz
    • Good girls / Amy Jo Burns
    • 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 / V.L. Seek
    • Bodies against borders / Michelle Chen
    • Wiping the stain clean / Gabrielle Union
    • What we didn't say / Liz Rosema
    • I said yes / Anthony Frame
    • Knowing better / Samhita Mukhopadhyay
    • Not that loud: quiet encounters with rape culture / Miriam Zoila Pérez
    • Why I stopped / Zoë Medeiros
    • Picture perfect / Sharisse Tracey
    • To get out from under it / Stacey May Fowles
    • Reaping what rape culture sows: live from the killing fields of growing up female in America / Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes
    • Invisible light waves / Meredith Talusan
    • Getting home / Nicole Boyce
    • Why I didn't say no / Elissa Bassist.
    Genre:
    Biographies and autobiographies, Social science, Self-help publications
    Subject(s): Anti-rape movement | Attitudes | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs | Child sexual abuse | FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse / General | Feminism | Psychological aspects | Public opinion | Rape | Rape victims | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies | Sex discrimination against women | Sexual harassment of women | Sociological aspects | United States
    Original Publisher: [New York], HarperCollins
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781538518984, 1538518988, 9781538518991, 1538518996