The Other Girl

has the power to inculcate ideas and attitudes about females’ physical appearance. The media generates negative physical and psychological consequences on young girls’ body image. Considering negative body image in young girls, I assume information from my own experience as well as from stories and shows from the past. I know that girls are influenced in some way or another by images showing the ideal body image in society; they may be positively, negatively, or neutrally affected by the…

also left her impaired speech problems with Nell who knew no other pronunciation of English. As the relationships with the doctors and Nell develop, it becomes apparent that both Lovell and Olson have social issues as well and care about Nell because of their similarities. After taking Nell to the local town to show her the modern world, word gets around of a “wild woman” living in the woods. It is not long before reporters and others become a threat to Nell’s wellbeing. In order to escape the…

Cisneros’ short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories discusses the issues that most Chicana women go through in this country. Sandra Cisneros portrays the sense of otherness, fears, battles and worries Chicano women experience in their lives. The two barbies in the story “Barbie-Q” the little girls play with portray the oppression of one culture by the dominant culture. When they play with the dolls, one of the girls tells the other one, “Yours is the one with the mean eyes…

children, on average, spend seven hours and thirty-eight minutes of entertainment each day. By allowing children to spend ceremonious amounts of time watching the same sorts of oversexualized, one-dimensional female character, we deprive both boys and girls. It is okay to have female characters who have lower class jobs, or are sexually aware, it should be important for the storyline to have her in this role. Not because the male character has to have the dominant position of power. If…

her children the proper Islamic way. Examples of some settings are Saudi Arabia, Nairobi, and Ethiopia. During her childhood she describes the different treatments she and her sister, Haweya, would receive from being girls. Mahad, her bother was allowed to play outside while the girls were learning baarri, which is a concept of complete submission to their husbands and the Quran. During her teenage years she would consisted being looking for answers in her religion related to the inequality of…

Gender equality has always been a dilemma, women, especially during the Romantic Era, were not seen as intellectual and did not have the same rights as men. Women were looked upon, criticized, and labeled as “Bluestockings” if they were to be involved in something that was not related to contributing to their households (Greenblatt 9). In the works, We are Seven by William Wordsworth, The Thorn by Wordsworth, and The Poor Singing Dame by Mary Robinson, we are able to see how women were treated…

Celebrity fascination is not healthy for adolescent girls. Girls around the ages of 11 to 17 are most influenced to get that ‘perfect’ look that they see on the cover of their favorite magazine. (Spettigue) These ‘influences’ that young girls have are setting unrealistic and unhealthy standards. For most girls they are striving for a thigh gap and small waist which they’re trying to achieve by starving themselves or taking medications that could be potentially dangerous. The thing with dieting…

Ever since I was a little girl, I have been taught about what a girl should and shouldn’t do, what a girl should or shouldn’t wear, and even what a girl should or shouldn’t be. And as I got older my identity has slowly conformed to these gender ideas. But, what if when I was younger I hadn’t been taught about gender and what if gender ideals wouldn’t have been pushed onto us by the media? Would I be the same person that I am today, or would I be someone completely different? I would hope that I…

St Lucy’s Home for Girls is a safe haven for warewolf girls to learn and change into better humans. Claudette, a student at St Lucy's Home For Girls follows the nuns curriculum closely but sometimes she strays from it. This short story written by Karen Russell follows three girls as they learn please and adapt to their new way of living, all of them heading in separate directions. In the beginning of claudettes journey everything is new and different however She shortly learns that hard work is…

experience. The Lives of Girls and Women, by Alice Munro, introduces the story of a girl named Del growing into a woman. Del is a young girl who is primarily raised by her mother. Del explores her sexuality, her religious beliefs, her sense of self-empowerment, and the function of gender in society. Housekeeping, written by Marilynne Robinson, is about the life of a young girl named Ruthie and her subtle transformation into a woman. Ruth is a seemingly odd and plain girl who takes little…