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You Play the Girl

: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY "If Hollywood's treatment of women leaves you wanting, you'll find good, heady company in

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Carina Chocano (9)Katharine Hepburn (1)

“It's not enough for candy to be candy. It has to symbolize candy too.”

— Carina Chocano, amazon.com

Tagged: food, Symbols, Instagram, candy, Hunger

“The women on The Bachelor shows aren't interested in marriage except as a certificate of completion; proof that they've become what a girl is still expected to become. What they're looking for is the chance to embark on the singular adventure they've read about and seen acted in movie after movie th…”

— Carina Chocano, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Women, feminism, Marriage, gender roles

“The Bachelor presents itself as a show about beautiful young single people finding love, but the show is less a matchmaking service than a sporting event. The sport is femininity.”

— Carina Chocano, amazon.com

Tagged: the bachelor, Women, feminism, femininity

“Eat, Pray, Love felt about as authentic to me as the heroine's "journey" on The Bachelor: Either she triumphed against all odds, or she quietly disappeared. It had to be a certain kind of redemptive narrative for a certain kind of lady at a certain stage in life when perhaps she has taken to wistful…”

— Carina Chocano, amazon.com

Tagged: Before and After,, Eat Pray Love, How to be a writer, Influencers, Savage roasts

“At the start of the book, Gilbert paints herself as a desperate suburban housewife in the throes of a nervous breakdown. But she was already a prize-winning journalist. She was rich. She'd had stories made into movies.”

— Carina Chocano, amazon.com

Tagged: Before and After,, Eat Pray Love, Writers, How to be a writer

“I wish I could say I was immune to the promise of the redemption narrative, but I found it hard to resist its mass-market allure. I also wanted very badly for it to save me.”

— Carina Chocano, amazon.com

Tagged: Before and After,, Eat Pray Love

“I put on pants fifty years ago and declared a sort of middle road. I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to and I've made enough money to support myself and I ain't afraid of being alone.”

— Katharine Hepburn, amazon.com

Tagged: Women, feminism, Marriage

“Eventually, she left her husband, moved to California with her daughter; and became an internationally best-selling author.”

— Carina Chocano, amazon.com

Tagged: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, My aesthetic

“Romantic love is a mirror in which you can see your whole self pleasantly reflected, if you're lucky. Or it's a dark mirror into which you can disappear.”

— Carina Chocano, amazon.com

Tagged: Women, feminism, Marriage

“A woman’s education was designed to coax her to sleep at sixteen and keep her unchanged and unconscious forever. It was an undoing. It wasn’t a start but a “finishing”.”

— Carina Chocano, amazon.com

Tagged: Women, feminism, Marriage