Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear, and Why

by Sady Doyle

"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.

• ISBN10: 1612195636
• ISBN13: 9781612195636
• Publish Date: 7 October 2016
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 16 March 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Melville House Publishing
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[empressbrooke]

I loved Sady Doyle's blog Tiger Beatdown when it was active, and was delighted when I saw she had a book coming out. The book contains her wonderfully snarky voice providing illuminating examples about how women have always been policed and silenced in much the same way GamerGate and celebrity tabloids do today.