02456cam a2200373 i 4500 1164603084 TxAuBib 20170821120000.0 151210s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780544648944 paperback 0544648943 paperback (OCoLC)932050450 YDXCP eng rda YDXCP BTCTA BDX OCLCQ TOH FM0 BKL CPL UAP DAD UOK TxAuBib rda Chocano, Carina, author. You play the girl : on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages / Carina Chocano. Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. xxvi, 275 pages : illustration ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A Mariner original". "Essays"--P. [1] of cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages [264]-275). "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."--P. [4] of cover. 20170821. Women Social conditions. Women Identity. Women in mass media. Women in popular culture. Sex role. Sexism. TXKIP