| Other Girls to Burn Contributor(s): Crew, Caroline (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820360430 ISBN-13: 9780820360430 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $21.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 155.642 |
| LCCN: 2021018803 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 8.1" W x 8.4" (0.40 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Other Girls to Burn is a collection of essays that explores the relationship between women and violence within such contexts as the 2014 Isla Vista shooting, early Christian virgin martyrs (discussed in relation with modern true crime stories), mixed martial arts, and rape culture. Formally inventive and lyric leaning, these essays shift between cultural criticism and personal essay and cohere around a central motif of female mystics. With them, Caroline Crew asks, What does it mean for women to be complicit in the violence of the patriarchy? How do women navigate risk as well as revel in thrill? What does it mean to both fear and perpetuate violence? The essays explore disparate cultural touch points, such as contemporary feminism, race, hagiography, the Salem witch trials, dementia, fairy tales, Eurydice, indie music, gender performance, Anne Boleyn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, family dysfunction, and vaginismus, to name a few. Together, this collection is in conversation with contemporary nonfiction writers such as Maggie Nelson, Sarah Manguso, and Anne Boyer. |