Trainwreck

By Sady Doyle

Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Feminist theory, Women, Popular Culture, Women in mass media, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Celebrities, Women, conduct of life, New York Times reviewed, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Public opinion, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Press coverage, Conduct of life

Description: "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, [this book] 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'"--Amazon.com.