USA TODAY
In The New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears, viewers saw a gifted female pop star brought to her knees by a sexist culture that never let her freely live. Many women of the 90s also saw themselves.
Culture held Spears up as an all American girl but had her walk a tight line: look stunning but embody the girl next door, act sexy but remain a virgin, be articulate but never opinionated. I mean, it s just all too much to ask of one girl, said journalist Allison Yarrow, author of 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality.”