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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, this book 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.