Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life - Erin Wunker

Category: Adults, Misc. Non-fiction, Political
Language: English
Keywords: Canada Essays Female Authors Feminism Gender Gender And Sexuality Memoir Nonfiction Politics Social Justice

Written by Erin Wunker
Read by Kristen Ridley
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept “feminist killjoy”), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed’s project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view.

Neither totemic nor complete, the nonfiction essays that make up Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life attempt to think publicly about why we need feminism, and especially why we need the figure of the feminist killjoy, now. From the complicated practices of being a mother and a feminist, to building friendship amongst women as a community-building and community-sustaining project, to writing that addresses rape culture from the Canadian context and beyond, Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life invites the listener into a conversation about gender, feminism, and living in our inequitable world.

Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
Release date: 09-15-20