Not that Bad : Dispatches from Rape Culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Harper Perennial, [2018] ©2018.
Description:	xii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Women -- Violence against. Sexual harassment of women. Rape. Rape victims -- Psychology. Sexual abuse victims. Rape. Rape victims -- Psychology. Sexual abuse victims. Sexual harassment of women. Women -- Violence against. Essays. Essays.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11567751

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Other authors / contributors:	Gay, Roxane, editor.
ISBN:	9780062413512 0062413511 9780062851468 0062851462
Notes:	Text in English.
Summary:	"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, 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. 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."--

Table of Contents:

Introduction
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 xTx
Floccinaucinihilipilification So Mayer
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
Contributors
Acknowledgments

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