For 25 years, Britney Spears has been a convenient scapegoat for whatever her audience needed. But if we truly want her to be free, we finally have to let her go.
The pop star’s new book, “The Woman in Me,” recounts her rise to fame, struggles that became tabloid fodder and her efforts to escape a conservatorship that long governed her life.
Pop culture has never been more interested in reclaiming women from the recent past, like Pamela Anderson and Janet Jackson. But not every reclamation succeeds.