Stand By Your Man Summary

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In this chapter it talks about abuse in a relationships and how most of the time it’s the women getting abused not the man. They also mention how artists wrote songs about it. Examples are “Stand by Your Man” which is about standing by your husband no matter what he do and “Independence Day” is about a little girl seeing her mom being abused by her dad, then after a while the mom burned down the house because of it. This chapter has a lot to do with gender from the four lenses plus culture and history from the four concepts. This relates to gender since in the chapter it states that 95% of the time when someone gets hurt, it is the woman. Weather its verbal or physical abuse. Since most of the time the man is bigger or stronger than the woman,

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