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, Kimberl Crenshaw, Dorothy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, Eileen Myles, Mona Eltahawy, bell hooks, Sarah Ahmed, Cherrie 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 thePortable 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.

Roxane Gay‘s writing appears inBest American Mystery Stories2014,Best American Short Stories2012,Best Sex Writing2012,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 theNew York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestsellingBad Feminist, the nationally bestsellingDifficult Womenand theNew York TimesbestsellingHunger. She is also the author ofWorld of Wakandafor Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter,The Audacity.

• Publisher:Penguin Group
• Publish Date: March 25, 2025
• Pages: 672
• Dimensions: 5.06 X 7.75 X 1.09 inches | 1.02 pounds
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9780143110392
• BISAC Categories: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women’s Studies, Gender Studies