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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 thirty-five years in pop culture - from the progressive 70s, through the backlash 80s, the triumphalist 90s and the pornified 'bro culture' of the early twenty-first century - providing a firsthand chronicle of the experience of growing up inside this funhouse. Always incisive, Chocano brilliantly shows that our identities are more iterative than we think, and certainly more complex than anything we see on any kind of screen.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139780349005553
eBay Product ID (ePID)238511440
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameYou Play the Girl: on Playboy Bunnies, Princesses, Trainwrecks and Other Man-Made Women
Publication Year2017
SubjectZoology
TypeTextbook
AuthorCarina Chocano
Subject AreaGender Issues
Dimensions
Item Height236 mm
Item Weight396 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorCarina Chocano