Girls play dead : acts of self-preservation
(2025)
By:
Percy, Jennifer
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW 362.8292/PERCY,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Doubleday, 2025
©2025
©2025
EDITION
First Doubleday hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
259 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780385550048, 0385550049 :, 0385550049, 9780385550048
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
This work combines memoir, reportage, and cultural analysis to examine how fear and trauma influence responses to sexual violence. Drawing on personal experience, family history, and interviews with survivors, Jen Percy explores behavioral and psychological reactions to assault, as well as societal misconceptions surrounding these responses. The book analyzes how trauma affects memory and narrative, the ways institutions interpret survivors' accounts, and the broader cultural frameworks that shape understandings of violence, self-preservation, and healing