Win a Copy of Black Folk Could Fly by Randall Kenan!

“McGregor draws on the works of feminist thinkers including Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, and Jia Tolentino, and her work will surely take its place among them. This radiates with intelligence.” —Publishers Weekly

How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.

Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the collective practices of feminist meaning-making in activities as varied as reading, critique, podcasting, and even mourning. In part this book is a memoir of one person’s education as a reader and a thinker, and in part it is an analysis of some of the genres and aesthetic modes that have been sites of feminist meaning-making: the sentimental, the personal, the banal, and the relatable. Above all, it is a meditation on what it means to care deeply and to know that caring is both necessary and utterly insufficient.

In the tradition of feminist autotheory, this collection works outward from the specificity of McGregor’s embodied experience – as a white settler, a fat femme, and a motherless daughter. In so doing, it invites readers to reconsider the culture, media, political structures, and lived experiences that inform how we move through the world separately and together.

We’re giving away 5 copies of the book, courtesy of Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

*Literary Hub is collecting consent to send promotion emails on behalf of Wilfrid Laurier University Press, which is located at 75 University Avenue West Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 Canada. Wilfrid Laurier University Press sends informational and promotional emails on behalf of itself. Subscribers can unsubscribe at any time.

Terms and Conditions