Current theme: The right to be unlikeable
Why must she be likeable?
Beginning with Unlikeable Female Characters, we revisit women who are angry, desirous, and unwilling to comply. Who sets the terms of likability—and when does rebellion reproduce someone else’s oppression?
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Connections & Further Reading
Cover storyUnlikeable Female Characters
FilmsJennifer's BodyKaryn Kusama
BooksMean Girl Feminism: On the Performative Power of WhitenessKim Hong NguyenPapersMammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling ImagesPatricia Hill CollinsArticlesPlaying the Bitch: Why We’re Showing a Season of Fierce FemalesAnna BogutskayaConceptMedia Representation CritiqueConceptPatriarchy CritiqueBeyond the Cover
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BooksDown Girl: The Logic of MisogynyFilmsJennifer's BodyArticlesPlaying the Bitch: Why We’re Showing a Season of Fierce FemalesVideos2010s Pop Feminism: A Painful Look BackPodcastsBad Feminist Film Club
Books8
- Bad Feminist
- Mean Girl Feminism: On the Performative Power of Whiteness
- The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
- The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
- Wide Sargasso Sea
- Convenience Store Woman
- In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning