You play the girl : on Playboy bunnies, princesses, trainwrecks & other man-made women
Chocano, Carina2017
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We all know who 'the girl' is. She holds the hero's hand as he runs through the Pyramids, chasing robots. Or she nags him, or foils him, plays the uptight straight man to his charming loser. She's idealised, degraded, dismissed, objectified and almost always dehumanised. How do we process these insidious portrayals, and how do they shape our sense of who we are and what we can become? Part memoir, part cultural commentary, part call to arms to women everywhere, 'You Play the Girl' flips the perspective on the past 35 years in pop culture - from the progressive 70s, through the backlash 80s, the triumphalist 90s and the pornified 'bro culture' of the early 21st century - providing a firsthand chronicle of the experience of growing up inside this funhouse.
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London : Virago, 2017.London : Virago, 2017.
Collation:
xxvi, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
ISBN:
9780349005553 (pbk)
Dewey class:
306.092
Language:
English
BRN:
1690950