Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear and Why
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (647 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1612196489 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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She won the first-ever Women’s Media Center Social Media award by popular vote in 2011 and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Trainwreck is her first book. Sady Doyle founded the blog Tiger Beatdown in 2008. . Her work has appeared in In These Times, The Guardian, Elle, The Atlantic, Slate, Buzzfeed, Rookie, and lots of other places around the Internet
She’s everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She’s Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, “crack is whack,” and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. From Mary Wollstonecraft—who, for decades after her death, was more famous for her illegitimate child and suicide attempts than for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman—to Charlotte Brontë, Billie Holiday, Sylvia Plath, and even Hillary Clinton, Sady Doyle’s Trainwreck dissects a centuries-old phenomenon and asks what it means now, in a time when we have unprecedented access to celebrities and civilians alike, and when women are pushing harder than ever against the boundaries of what it means to “behave.” Where did these women come from? What are their crimes? And what does it mean for the rest of us? For an age when any form of self-expression can be the one that ends you, Sady Doyl
"Must Read" according to Libby. This book is very well written. It really helped me see feminism from another perspective, and how people will put women down in any way possible. It's important to be aware so that we know when it is happening and that women must fight back and stand up for each other.. EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS!! Katharine Fegley Really comprehensive and fascinating analysis - i can't stop talking to people about it.. Five Stars Brigid Keely Wonderfully well written. Gave me a lot to think about.
High-speed and immediately readable, Doyle's poignant take on the concept of the trainwreck, and its relation to feminism, will provoke much thought and discussion.”—Booklist starred review “Some people take a scalpel to the heart of media culture; Sady Doyle brings a bone saw, a melon baller, and a machete. Trainwreck is a blistering indictment of how history has normalized sexism as entertainment, defining—and destroying—the women we claim to love.” —Andi Zeisler, author of