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Dead girls : essays on surviving American obsession
Title:
Dead girls : essays on surviving American obsession
Summary:
In this collection of sharp, poignant essays, Bolin blends the personal and political in an exploration of American culture through the lens of our obsession with dead women. Stories, novels, movies and television programs are obsessed with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised. Bolin shows how women's bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster men's stories. She analyzes stories of witches and werewolves, and ends by interrogating the persistent injustices real women suffer because of the portrayal of women in media. -- Adopted from back cover.
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Introduction: girls, girls, girls -- Part 1: the dead girl show. Toward a theory of a dead girl show ; Black hole ; The husband did it ; The daughter as detective -- Part 2: lost in Los Angeles. There there ; Los Angeles diary ; Lonely heart ; This place makes everyone a gambler ; The dream -- Part 3: Weird sisters. A teen witch's guide to staying alive ; And so it is ; My hypochondria ; Just us girls -- Part 4: a sentimental education. Accomplices.
Physical Description:
276 pages ; 21 cm
Genre:
Publisher:
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
Publication Date:
2018
ISBN:
9780062657145
Publication Information:
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Call Number:
305.4 BOLIN
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