A vogue for self-exposure has reduced feminism to naked navel-gazing

The current wave of confessional writing from media-savvy young women walks an unsteady line between extending the politics of the personal and unit-shifting titillation“I get naked on TV. A lot,” writes Lena Dunham in her bestselling memoir Not That Kind of Girl. Exhibitionism isn’t new to her, she explains; in fact, she rather likes being naked, as her body is “a tool to tell the story”. That story is, of course, her own: a compendium of corporeal confessions, with an emphasis on their most awkward and impolite dimensions, belches and farts, periods and pubic hair. As soon as it arrived on shelves, the book was headline news as Dunham variously apologised for touching her sister’s genitals, for trivialising child abuse, for amending her accounts of college sex. It was publishing gold. Related: Not That Kind of Girl review – Lena Dunham exposes all, again Related: Has celebrity feminism failed? Related: Maggie Nelson and Chris Kraus on confessional writing – books podcast Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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A vogue for self-exposure has reduced feminism to naked navel-gazing

The current wave of confessional writing from media-savvy young women walks an unsteady line between extending the politics of the personal and unit-shifting titillation“I get naked on TV. A lot,” writes Lena Dunham in her bestselling memoir Not That Kind of Girl. Exhibitionism isn’t new to her,... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Justin Torres’s Art of Exposure and Concealment

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The death of Jezebel is the end of an era of feminism. We’re worse off without it

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A Feminist Before Feminism: A Reading List in Honor of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Boston

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An unruly women’s club that pointed the way to modern feminism

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After publisher pulls book by white professor on 'trap feminism,' founder speaks out

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A plan to make feminism better: Make it less White

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Saga Egmont Partners with the UK’s Muswell and Violet Gaze Presses

The digital arm of Copenhagen's Lindhardt & Ringhof, Saga Egmont has agreements with two independent houses in the United Kingdom. The post Saga Egmont Partners with the UK’s Muswell and Violet Gaze Presses appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Saga Egmont teams up with Muswell Press and Violet Gaze on audio titles

Saga Egmont has launched new partnerships with indie publishers Muswell Press and Violet Gaze Press with a focus on publishing a range of diverse audiobooks. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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How one indie publisher is reducing their carbon imprint.

Sales and marketing director Julie Atkins of outdoor sports publisher Vertebrate talks to The Bookseller about their first carbon negative book.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Teen Vogue photographer says Condé Nast doesn't value Asian community

Yu Tsai condemns magazine publisher for offering editor’s role to Alexi McCammond, who then resigned over racist tweetsA Teen Vogue photographer has said the hiring and swift axing of editor-in-chief Alexi McCammond over anti-Asian tweets shows Condé Nast does not “value” its Asian staff... Continue reading at The Guardian

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NFL hands Amazon exclusive games, and Teen Vogue editor undone by teen rogue tweets: Friday Wake-Up Call

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Vogue to release new Kamala Harris cover after original sparks backlash

Magazine plans limited edition with new photo after original was widely seen as disrespectfulVogue will publish a limited print edition of its February issue, featuring Kamala Harris, with a new photo following widespread backlash against an original cover image widely held to lack respect for... Continue reading at The Guardian

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