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buildings. The streets are filled with people rushing to get to stores for their over-the-top sales. Women are strolling along the streets with a child or two with them, while holding shopping bags, from the finest stores in the city. Elegant Silks is one of the top stores in the city, also one of the most expensive. The store takes up four floors, all covered with sheer glass windows. The letters are in gold cursive and take up the entire width of the entrance over the glass doors. We enter the shop, while Marcus waits outside…

Pajama's are comfortable and should be able to be worn. It's not a distraction, they are just clothes. A lot of people get distracted easily and the school is just blaming it on what people wear. Also, girls can wear shirts that go down to the middle of their chests and not have anything said to them about it. When a girl has a little bit of their stomach exposed they are sent home to change or just yelled at. I know because this happened to me. That's just not right at all. The things that…

her to. Toni Morrison uses the Christmas gift, the doll, to highlight what she perceives to be proof that gender is socially constructed and is used to control women. When the little girl receives the doll for Christmas she is unsure how to act towards it and wonders “What was I supposed to do with it?”. According to the girl the doll was to represent her “fondest wish.”. Here Morrison is pointing out that girls liking dolls is a social construct. This is even more evident when the little girls…

to behave/act in a certain way, it is just how we believe we "should" do it. Even with the way we dress; are girls allowed to wear jeans? Yes, and we do wear them. Are boys allowed to wear skirts? Probably, but they do not do it, because of what society will think, because it does not look "normal". Wearing sneakers instead of high heels, does not make you less "girly", is just a matter of being comfortable with yourself…

Women in The Big Sleep As I have mentioned before, this was true in the case of the rise of feminism. Before the turn of the century, “Women arrived, en masse, [to the Western frontier], and the ‘male-dominated homosocial world of gold rush California’ gave way to a ‘settled domestic Victorian discipline’” (Hoefer 49). That ‘Victorian discipline’ gave way in the 1920s to a deviant social norm, exemplified by Carmen and to a lesser extent Vivian. Right before Marlowe expresses how much he…

The campaign also aims to motivate young women and girls to be confident after they hit puberty when their confidence typically drops. The Always campaign accomplishes this goal through the use of branding, challenging text statements, startling statistics and research findings on young women’s confidence, and critiquing the common place of the phrase “like a girl.” Always and the #LikeAGirl Campaign. The international feminine hygiene company…

Becoming an Apache Woman, Something Only a Girl Can Do In some cultures, an adolescent’s transition into adulthood is celebrated with an extravagant soiree, while other’s are expected to recite religious scriptures. Meanwhile for the Apaches, a native American tribe that lives in the southwestern United States, the leap into womanhood is marked by a symbolic four-day Sunrise Ceremony. The young Apache girl’s physical endurance is tested during this event, where it is believed that she will enter…

Female coming of age stories are especially intriguing, considering that society often has a set of ideals about what is of value to women and what young women should 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…

After carefully evaluating the speech spoken by Adrienne Rich, it was apparent that she argued for women to stand up and take control of their education instead of just tolerating it. She presents this speech to an audience of women at a women’s only institution in 1977, resulting in her speech mainly focusing on women who were academically discriminated to their belief. During her speech she desires her audience to be assertive and to strive for self-respect to help women universally, which…

it was not over yet, there were fewer and fewer advances made once we reached the 70s and 80s. Based upon the “grades” the poem’s persona receives from her husband and children, she is struggling to balance her duties as a wife and mother. The grades themselves do not focus on herself as a person but rather on her household chores. She receives an A in cooking, her best “class”, but receives an incomplete in ironing. This suggests that she neglects certain duties to perfect others. Perhaps she…