“Girls in pop culture are also often represented in ways that feel almost, but not quite, human. They are lifelike rather than alive, and more than anything they resemble the 'idea of woman' in late capitalist culture; the twenty-first-century 'true… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“You can learn a lot about the longings and generalized gender anxieties of an era by the kinds of fake women it dreams up.” — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“Gothic is the genre of fear. Our fascination with it is almost always revived during times of instability and panic. In the wake of… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“Every new generation of women, it seems, feminist and housewife alike, is encouraged by popular culture to disavow its forebears and rebrand itself as… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“Sex may be completely out in the open now, but it's still defined and controlled by a powerful subset of elite men. In the… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“Across the various iterations, the 'real housewives' flaunted their refusal to conform to the happy modern housewife ideal as though they were breaking the… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“We appeared to be done with the marriage plot. ('What's the alternative to the marriage plot?' She said: ' The alternative is adventure.') My… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“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… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“What does a woman running for president have to do to be likable? Not run for president.” — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“What is marriage anymore, anyway? How is the institution structured? What assumptions do we bring to it? Is it an irreducible economic unit, in… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“Friedan demystified the fairy tale and traced it back to its roots. She named the unnamed problem. She told women they weren’t crazy, that… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“In his 1899 critique of upper-class values, The Theory of the Leisure Class, economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen wrote, 'The dress of women goes… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“Strategic girls manage perception; idealistic girls go up against the narrative, because it’s at the root of the problem, and they get crushed every… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
