Title Dead girls : essays on surviving American obsession / Alice Bolin.

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New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]

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New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	305.409 BOL	Check Shelf
Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction	305.4097 BOLIN	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction	305.4097 BOLIN	Check Shelf
Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction	305.4 BOLIN	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	276 pages ; 21 cm
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.
Summary	"A collection of sharp, poignant essays that expertly blends the personal and political in an exploration of American culture through the lens of our obsession with dead women"-- Provided by publisher.
	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
Subject	Women in popular culture -- United States.
	Women in mass media.
	Death in popular culture -- United States.
	Death in mass media.
	Death in mass media. (OCoLC)fst00888700
	Death in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst00888704
	Women in mass media. (OCoLC)fst01177920
	Women in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01177953
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
Genre/Form	Essays.
	Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
Added Title	Essays. Selections
Other Form:	Online version: Bolin, Alice, author. Dead girls First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, [2018] 9780062657169 (DLC) 2018026640
ISBN	9780062657145 (paperback)
	0062657143 (paperback)

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