The Story
Shes everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck.Shes 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 Wollstonecraftwho, for decades after her death, was more famous for her illegitimate child and suicide attempts than for A Vindication of the Rights of Womanto Charlotte Bront, Billie Holiday, Sylvia Plath, and even Hillary Clinton, Sady Doyles Trainwreck dissects a centuriesold 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 selfexpression can be the one that ends you, Sady Doyles book is as fierce and intelligent as it is funny and compassionatean essential, timely, feminist anatomy of the female trainwreck.
Description
Shes everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck.Shes 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 Wollstonecraftwho, for decades after her death, was more famous for her illegitimate child and suicide attempts than for A Vindication of the Rights of Womanto Charlotte Bront, Billie Holiday, Sylvia Plath, and even Hillary Clinton, Sady Doyles Trainwreck dissects a centuriesold 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 selfexpression can be the one that ends you, Sady Doyles book is as fierce and intelligent as it is funny and compassionatean essential, timely, feminist anatomy of the female trainwreck.
