Sociology. Women's Studies. Nonfiction. HTML:�??Smart ... compelling ... persuasive .�?� �??New York Times Book Review
She�??s everywhere once you start looking: the trainwreck.
 
She�??s 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 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, Doyle�??s book is as fierce and intelligent as it is funny and compassionate�??an essential, timely