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* Read * Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear and Why by Sady Doyle ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear and Why Thought provoking Deborah S. Eden Excellent ; introduced me to names I did not know such as a Connie converse who my heart now bleeds for ; so many women ; how society Is unjust and if we are at all different labels us "crazy " I really enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would ; sometimes books seem preachy or take a dry note and become boring but this book is different. Its entertaining and fascinating. Highly recommended.. An absolutely necessary work of social commentary This is a book
| Title | : | Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear and Why |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.21 (814 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1612195636 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-13 |
| Language | : | English |
If you agree with her, reading her work is cathartic; and if you don’t, take cover.” —Kate Harding, author of Asking for It. “Smart compelling persuasive Doyle reminds us that we shouldn't be so quick to judge women in terms of degrading stereotypes or unrealistic expectations.”—New York Times Book Review“FantasticTrainwreck will very likely join the feminist canon.”—The Atlantic“Fiercely brilliant, must-readDoyle has dug deeply into the garbage that the media peddles about womenDoyle's book moves the needle.”—Elle“Provocative, persuasive.”—Vogue“To miss Trainwreck would be a mistakeBrilliantly snarky and smart, Trainwreck dese
Sady Doyle founded the blog Tiger Beatdown in 2008. . 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. Her work has appeared in In These Times, The Guardian, Elle, The Atlantic, Slate, Buzzfeed, Rookie, and lots of other places around the Internet
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 Doyle’s book is as fierce and intelligent as it is funny and compassionate—an essential, timely, feminist anatomy of the female trainwreck.. 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,
Thought provoking Deborah S. Eden Excellent ; introduced me to names I did not know such as a Connie converse who my heart now bleeds for ; so many women ; how society Is unjust and if we are at all different labels us "crazy " I really enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would ; sometimes books seem preachy or take a dry note and become boring but this book is different. Its entertaining and fascinating. Highly recommended.. An absolutely necessary work of social commentary This is a book for anyone who's ever been swept up in the thrill of celebrity gossip—why are we so quick to judge, and why are we so excited by ridicule? Whether you're talking about a novelist or a pop singer, women throughout history have had to contend with a disproportionate level of scorn, schadenfreude, and derision when they reach a certain level of fame—and Sady Doyle shows us how that fits into a broader system of social control. Makes a compelling case in a clear, th. "Sady Doyle is one of the most exciting voices in" according to Amazon Customer. Sady Doyle is one of the most exciting voices in feminism today. At long last we can read her at book length.
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