Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear, and Why (Hardcover) by Sady Doyle

from ASKelmore

Best for: People who maybe enjoy the schadenfreud of the seeming downfall of famous women but who are also interested in maybe stopping that. In a nutshell: Author Sady Doyle examines all the ways we push women and judge them for their imperfections. Line that sticks with me: "We spend so much ti...

from greeniezona

I loved this book just as much as I expected to. Doyle collects fascinating anecdotes from as far back as Mary Wollstonecraft of celebrity culture and the pillorying of women in the spotlight as a means to keep all women "in line." Many of the stories here were unfamiliar, nearly all will make yo...

from rivkat

Doyle has rewritten the Joanna Russ classic How To Suppress Women's Writing for an age of celebrity. Though she covers Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Jacobs, Sylvia Plath, and a few others before recent decades, she's really writing about how celebrity female trainwrecks are used by the people who ...

from rivkat

Doyle has rewritten the Joanna Russ classic How To Suppress Women's Writing for an age of celebrity. Though she covers Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Jacobs, Sylvia Plath, and a few others before recent decades, she's really writing about how celebrity female trainwrecks are used by the people who ...