On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, and Other Mixed Messages
Author: Carina Chocano
ISBN: 9780544648944
In this smart, funny, impassioned call to arms, a pop culture critic merges memoir and commentary to explore how our culture shapes ideas about who women are, what they are meant to be, and where they belong. Who is "the girl"? Look to movies, TV shows, magazines, and ads and the message is both clear and not: she is a sexed up sidekick, a princess waiting to be saved, a morally infallible angel with no opinions of her own. She's whatever the hero needs her to be in order to become himself. She's an abstraction, an ideal, a standard, a mercurial phantom. From the moment we're born, we're told stories about what girls are and they aren't, what girls want and what they don't, what girls can be and what they can't. "The girl" looms over us like a toxic cloud, permeating everything and confusing our sense of reality. In You Play the Girl, Carina Chocano shows how we metabolize the subtle, fragmented messages embedded in our everyday experience and how our identity is shaped by them. Â
Publisher: MARINER BOOKS
Publish Date: 2017-08-08
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Women, Humor / Form / Essays, Literary Criticism / Feminist, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Essays
This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Essays)