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 time pathologizing “overemotional” women that we scarcely ever ask what those women are emotional about.” Why I chose it: I’m on a bit of a roll, reading about women who fight the system, […]
We Could All So Easily Be Wrecked
I’m rating this one 5 stars not because it’s perfect (although I feel it is pretty close) but instead because it is perfect for right now. In Trainwreck, Sady Doyle unpacks the ways that society judges women who dare to live too big a life and how historically “too big a life” has been pretty darn small. I was already in an angry feminist headspace last November when I read badkittyuno’s review and her description of the book as a journey through the cycle of […]
This book. You should read this book.
I finished this book over a week ago, loved loved loved it, but then life happened and now I’m 7 books behind on my reviews again. But let me just say, I know most of y’all’s tastes by now, and I think you’d really like this one. It’s like a super angry version of Feminist Fight Club. “Consider this book, then, a feminist anatomy of the trainwreck. It’s an effort to figure out who she is: why she’s making us so angry; what, in general, she […]