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Notes From a Feminist Killjoy

Essays on Everyday Life

by (author) Erin Wunker

Publisher
Book*hug Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2016
Category
Women, Feminism & Feminist Theory
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781771662567
    Publish Date
    Nov 2016
    List Price
    $23.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771662574
    Publish Date
    Oct 2016
    List Price
    $14.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771663700
    Publish Date
    Nov 2017
    List Price
    $20.00
  • Audio

    ISBN
    9781771666534
    Publish Date
    Sep 2020
    List Price
    $29.99

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Winner of the Atlantic Book Awards 2017 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
Winner of the East Coast Literary Awards 2017 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award
Finalist for the 2017 Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing

Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too.

 

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 non-fiction 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 -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 reader into a conversation about gender, feminism, and living in our inequitable world.

About the author

Erin Wunker is Chair of the Board of the national non-profit organization Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (www.cwila.com) and co-founder, writer, and managing editor of the feminist academic blog Hook & Eye: Fast Feminism, Slow Academe. She teaches courses in Canadian literature and cultural production with a special focus on cultural production by women. She lives in Halifax with her partner, their daughter, and Marley the dog. Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life, forthcoming from BookThug in the fall of 2016, is Wunker's first book.

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Awards

  • Winner, Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award
  • Short-listed, Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing
  • Winner, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award

Editorial Reviews

"Notes from a Feminist Killjoy is an answer to what is needed now—a self-consciously contingent rejoinder to the question of 'who needs feminism?'" —rabble.ca

"Erin Wunker's first book is a useful navigational tool even for those steeped in the precepts of women's studies. Her Notes represents a smorgasbord of reflection."—Sarah Murdoch, Toronto Star and Metro Canada (Toronto)

"Women reaching out to one another, telling each other our stories. This is a structural tactic. It is also crucial to the work of justice and social change. Let us take Wunker's core message to heart and continue this messy, complex, and vital conversation."—The Fem

"Wunker renders the label 'feminist killjoy' one that readers can be proud to wear." —Quill and Quire (starred review)

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