Title: You play the girl
Description: "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.
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, 305.42