You play the girl : on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
305.42 CHOCA
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305.42 CHOCA
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xxvi, 275 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"A Mariner original"--Title page.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-275).
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. 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. From Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, from Flashdance to Frozen, from the progressive '70s through the backlash '80s, the glib '90s, and the pornified aughts-and at stops in between-Chocano blends formative personal stories with insightful and emotionally powerful analysis. 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. -- from Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Chocano, C. (2017). You play the girl: on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chocano, Carina. 2017. You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, and Other Mixed Messages. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chocano, Carina. You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, and Other Mixed Messages Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Chocano, Carina. You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, and Other Mixed Messages Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
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