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    Lady Sidekick: 50 Tired Tropes for Women
    Lady Sidekick: 50 Tired Tropes for Women
    Lady Sidekick: 50 Tired Tropes for Women
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    Lady Sidekick: 50 Tired Tropes for Women

    By Anneka Harry and Laura Dockrill

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    Lady Sidekick has gathered up all the tired tropes for women so you don't have to! From the Femme Fatale to the Crazy Cat Lady, the Bridezilla to the Girl Next Door, it calls them out and, most importantly, RECLAIMS them. For too long women have been pigeonholed into a handful of tired and basic characters, their personality and behavior criticized if they don't fit the role society thinks they should be playing. Lady Sidekick analyses 50 of the most moth-eaten, antiquated, cookie-cutter females clichÉs, archetypes, and tokens that 21st-century women are SO over. Through hilarious breakdowns, comic illustrations, and tongue-firmly-in-cheek-fueled study, it slow-roasts each trope, sprinkling them with sarcasm, seasoning them with feminism, infusing them with activism, before serving them up ready for the modern masses to enjoy. It's time to shove a stick of dynamite up the arse of the out-of-date—and Lady Sidekick is ready to light the wick. Happy trope-spotting!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateOct 20, 2020
    ISBN9780750996365
    Lady Sidekick: 50 Tired Tropes for Women
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    Anneka Harry

    Anneka Harry is a writer and performer whose work covers series, episodes and features for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV2, Radio 4, Stylist and Grazia. Her book 'Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-changers and Game-changers' will be published in 2020 by Little A.

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