The song “Girl in a Country Song” addresses our class topic of gender inequalities. The song is themed around two girls being fed up with living their lives to please men. “Girl in a Country Song” begins with the girls singing about how they’re barely wearing clothes and starting to question why they aren’t dressing for comfort (Maddie & Tae‚ 2014). These lyrics correspond with Johnson’s article we read in class. According to Johnson‚ patriarchy is male-centered. In other words‚ women are taught
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Delaney and On Punk and Not Being a Girl by Lavinia Greenlaw. Delaney states that "Man is born free but is everywhere in chains." This is implying that each and every one of us are forced into a clothing style. Clothing is what we are labeled by. However‚ to have our own style is important though. Being labeled helps find others who are like us. It is stated that clothing can have its distinctions. For example‚ there is a good chance you will not see a goth girl hanging out with a preppy cheerleader
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Starkey‚ Marion. The Visionary Girls. Canada. Little‚ Brown and Company. 1973. On April 13th 1901‚ in Worcester‚ Massachusetts‚ a lady by the name of Marion Starkey was born. She was the daughter of Alice T (Gray) Starkey and Arthur E. Starkey‚ who was known best as a painter and publisher. In 1922 and 1935‚ Marion received her B.S and M.A from Boston University‚ and later graduated from Harvard in 1946. She was also a member of many organizations‚ which included League of Women Voters‚ Lynn
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In The Girls in Their Summer Dresses‚ it is necessary to explore the personal differences that cause problems in the relationship of the couple. The details of the story will lead to a conclusion that for Michael the relationship could just be a mere convenience or an affection solely generated by his physical wanting of Frances‚ so with the way she looks and appreciates the girls of New York. Frances calling the Stevensons shows her attitude which is passivity and lack of idealism to confront the
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description of the “Tiller Girls.” Gordon speaks about Fascism during the Weimar period specifically the Nazi regime in Germany. The Nazi culture and regime were known as being strict and repressive. Fosse eludes to this by showing the flashes of Germany outside of the club within the piece. This‚ however‚ was the opposite when it came to the arts. Within the arts women were sexualized and thought of as nothing more than an object. During the Third Reich “Hitler Girls” (Gordon‚ 165) served as the
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In Japan‚ the images of women have undergone rather remarkable transitional changes. In her article "The Modern Girl as Militant"‚ Miriam Silverberg focuses on the category of Modern Girl ("moga‚" or modan gaaru)‚ a topic of debate in Japanese society during the 1920s and early 1930s. She argues that the Modern Girl was a media creation designed to portray women as promiscuous and apolitical. It was a way of displacing the militancy expressed in their political activity‚ her labor in new arenas and
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fourteen-years-old girl. She worries about her small issues such as learning how to dance‚ being on Math Team‚ wearing braces to a bigger issue such as death. The main point of the poem focuses on the girl wanting to die and worries if her mother would abandon her. The girl is scared if she dies without her mother noticing. She also scared that she can’t attend her graduation. This poem is an example of lyric poetry because it makes the readers feel the emotions that the little girl experience when
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‘Girl’ is an astonishing prose poem written by Jamaica Kincaid‚ this is one of the monologue that is easily imagined in a clear dramatic context. The irony of this prose poem come from the title given to it “Girl” because the girl only gets to speak two line through out the text and the rest is covered by the mother. The prose poem consists of single sentences about a mother advising her daughter about femininity‚ society‚ traditions and sexuality. Throughout the text‚ the use of single sentence
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The first half of the reading is Rebecca explaining how she was in love with this kid Bryan‚ but he said that he didn’t like black girls. What Rebecca attempts to do is to make herself not be black by showing Bryan that she is “not related to black girls”. The second part of the reading is Rebecca talking about how her experience is when moving to Atlanta to live with her Uncle Bobby‚ his sons‚ and Uncle Curt. She talks about how she likes to hang out with her Uncle because she treats her like one
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In the short story‚ or extremely long sentence‚ “Girl”‚ Jamaica Kincaid -the author as well as the speaker- gives a list of ongoing commands that she was receiving. As readers‚ we assume that these are orders coming from her mother. As we are aware‚ her family had certain beliefs and also did not approve of her writing later on in life. The italicized words in the text such as “…but I don’t sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school…” and “…but what if the baker won’t let me feel the
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