Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
"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. In You Play the Girl, Chocano blends formative personal stories with insightful and emotionally powerful analysis. Moving from Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, Flashdance to Frozen, the progressive '70s through the backlash '80s, the glib '90s, and the pornified aughts--and at stops in between--she explains how growing up in the shadow of "the girl" taught her to think about herself and the world and what it means to raise a daughter in the face of these contorted reflections. In the tradition of Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Sontag, Chocano brilliantly shows that our identities are more fluid than we think, and certainly more complex than anything we see on any kind of screen."--Page 4 of cover.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Previews available in: English
Subjects
Women in popular culture, Sex role, Women in mass media, Sexism, Social conditions, Identity, Women, Feminist criticism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, HUMOR / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Women -- Social conditions, Women -- Identity, Women--social conditions, Women--identity, Biography & autobiography / women, Humor / essays, Social science / essays, Social science / feminism & feminist theory, Social science / women's studies, Hq1206 .c5185 2017, 305.42Showing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, and Other Mixed Messages
2017, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
0349005567 9780349005560
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
You play the girl: on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages
2017, Mariner
in English
0544648943 9780544648944
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, and Other Mixed Messages
2017, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
054464896X 9780544648968
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
4
You Play The Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Princesses, Trainwrecks and Other Man-Made Women
Apr 07, 2016, Virago
paperback
0349005559 9780349005553
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Table of Contents
Edition Notes
Essays.
"A Mariner original"--Title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-275).
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?December 19, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
October 30, 2023 | Edited by Scott365Bot | import existing book |
December 19, 2022 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
September 19, 2021 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
May 23, 2019 | Created by MARC Bot | import new book |