Publisher Description
When fifty-three percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and ninety-four percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite in Trump’s America? Nasty Women includes inspiring essays from a diverse group of talented women writers who seek to provide a broad look at how we got here and what we need to do to move forward.
Nasty Women features essays by Rebecca Solnit, Cheryl Strayed, Sarah Hepola, Nicole Chung, Katha Pollitt, Jill Filipovic, Samantha Irby, Randa Jarrar, Sarah Hollenbeck, Meredith Talusan, and Sarah Jaffe, among others.
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“Samantha Irby’s ‘Country Crock’ is fantastic. Sarah Jaffe’s ‘Donald Trump’s War on the Working Class’ is essential. Carina Chocano’s ‘We Have a Heroine Problem’ is brilliant. Just read the whole book. It’s only getting more relevant by the hour.”
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Chicago Tribune
About the Authors
Samhita Mukhopadhyay is a writer, editor, and speaker. She is the former Senior Editorial Director of Culture and Identities at Mic and former Executive Editor of Feministing.com. She is also the author of Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life. Her work has appeared in Al Jazeera, the Guardian, New York Magazine, Medium, Talking Points Memo, and Jezebel.
Kate Harding has been writing popular feminist rants
for Internet audiences since 2007, most notably at Jezebel, at Salon’s Broadsheet blog, and at her own body-acceptance blog, Shapely
Prose. She’s also the coauthor of Lessons from the
Fat-o-Sphere, a major contributor to The Book of Jezebel, and an
essayist who’s been published in several anthologies, including Yes Means
Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape. Kate recently
started a new Tumblr blog, Don’t Get Raped (victimblaming.tumblr.com), which uses news items
about sexual assault to catalog the many situations women—and men and
children—have to avoid to fully protect themselves against the
threat of rape. She lives in Minnesota.
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker and a washerwoman. As a young teenager, he became quite well known in Odense as a reciter of drama and as a singer. When he was fourteen, he set off for the capital, Copenhagen, determined to become a national success on the stage. He failed miserably, but made some influential friends in the capital who got him into school to remedy his lack of proper education. In 1829 his first book was published. After that, books came out at regular intervals. His stories began to be translated into English as early as 1846. Since then, numerous editions, and more recently Hollywood songs and Disney cartoons, have helped to ensure the continuing popularity of the stories in the English-speaking world.
About Bahni Turpin
Bahni Turpin, winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and several prestigious Audie Awards for her narrations, was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine in 2019. Publishers Weekly magazine named her Narrator of the Year for 2016. She is an ensemble member of the Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles. She has guest starred in many television series, including NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Six Feet Under, Cold Case, What about Brian, and The Comeback. Film credits include Brokedown Palace, Crossroads, and Daughters of the Dust. She is also a member of the recording cast of The Help, which won numerous awards.