Thursday December 1, 2016 5:30pm - 6:30pm (1 Hour)
Literary
boxofdelightsbooks@gmail.com
9025429511
Join us for the launch of Erin Wunker's book, "Notes from a Feminist Killjoy."
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.
Erin Wunker is assistant professor at Acadia University (Department of English). Her research interests include Canadian literatures, cultural studies, feminist and affect theory, poetry and poetics. She is co-founder and co-editor of the feminist academic blog Hook & Eye: Fast Feminism, Slow Academe (www.hookandeye.ca) and Chair of the Board of the national not-for-profit literary organization Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (www.cwila.com). We are thrilled to have her join us for this launch.
http://erinwunker.ca/
boxofdelightsbooks@gmail.com
9025429511
Join us for the launch of Erin Wunker's book, "Notes from a Feminist Killjoy."
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.
Erin Wunker is assistant professor at Acadia University (Department of English). Her research interests include Canadian literatures, cultural studies, feminist and affect theory, poetry and poetics. She is co-founder and co-editor of the feminist academic blog Hook & Eye: Fast Feminism, Slow Academe (www.hookandeye.ca) and Chair of the Board of the national not-for-profit literary organization Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (www.cwila.com). We are thrilled to have her join us for this launch.
http://erinwunker.ca/
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Wolfville, Nova Scotia
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