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Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation is a beautiful novel written by Jen Percy. The book was published on January 1, 2025 and is available in both PDF and EPUB formats. Below is the summary of “Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation by Jen Percy”:

National Magazine Award winner and author of theNew York TimesNotableDemon Camp,Jen Percy returns with a devastating exploration of womanhood and survival in this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction.What does it mean to endure as a woman? Percy, who has written extensively on trauma responses and PTSD, revisits these subjects using her personal experience, including sexual assault, to examine a broader social and cultural history of trauma. Beginning with her childhood in rural Oregon, Percy dissects the moments that shaped her girlhood. She learns from her mother, who teaches her wilderness survival strategies (and who eventually joins a cult), and she interrogates the biological basis for “freezing,” or tonic immobility, that is instinctual for humans in moments of physical danger. Percy’s writing chronicles women venturing into fantasies, cults, and hypnosis in order to cope with suffering and abuse.This is a book about women forced to play dead, and others fighting for their lives. It follows women in bunkers preparing for the apocalypse when the apocalypse might be embodied by the person darkening their door and women imprisoned for killing their attackers, all in an effort to better understand how people get stuck in inescapable circumstances—of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and vigilantism. Percy depicts the thrilling grit it takes to escape such evil and overcome moments of paralysis when women are so often conditioned by the myth of “fight or flight.”In electrifying prose, reminiscent of Joan Didion and Robert Kolker, Percy combines personal and cultural history, psychology, and reportage to deliver an astonishing examination of the malignant forces women face in the everyday, and the depths forged by the American character to confront them.

Details About Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation by Jen Percy – eBook

• Title: Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
• Author: Jen Percy
• Language: English
• Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Feminism, Womens
• Series:
• Published Date: January 1, 2025
• Status: Available for Download
• Formats: PDF/EPUB
• [EPUB] Filename: Girls_Play_Dead_Acts_of_Self-Preservation_-_Jen_Percy.epub
• [PDF] Filename: Girls_Play_Dead_Acts_of_Self-Preservation_-_Jen_Percy.pdf
• EPUB File Size: 3.34 MB
• PDF File Size: 4.07 MB

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