Bad feminist: essays

Feel me, see me, hear me, reach me --

Peculiar benefits --

Typical first year professor --

To scratch, claw or grope clumsily or frantically --

How to be friends with another woman --

Girls, girls, girls --

I once was Miss America --

Garish, glorious spectacles --

Not here to make friends --

How we all lose --

Reaching for catharsis : getting fat right (or wrong) and Diana Spechler's Skinny --

The smooth surfaces of idyll --

The careless language of sexual violence --

What we hunger for --

The illusion of safety/the safety of illusion --

The spectacle of broken men --

A tale of three coming out stories --

Beyond the measure of men --

Some jokes are funnier than others --

Dear young ladies who love Chris Brown --

So much they would let him beat them --

Blurred lines, indeed --

The trouble with Prince Charming, or, He who trespassed against us --

The solace of preparing fried foods and other quaint remembrances from 1960s Mississippi : thoughts on The help --

Surviving Django --

Beyond the struggle narrative --

The morality of Tyler Perry --

The last day of a young black man --

When less is more --

The politics of respectability --

When Twitter does what journalism cannot --

The alienable rights of women --

Holding out for a hero --

A tale of two profiles --

The racism we all carry --

Tragedy, call, compassion, response --

Bad feminist : take one --

Bad feminist : take two.