Sunday, 20 October 2013

What is the feminist perspective of "Girl"?

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highlights the ways in which the nuclear family functions to pass down gender roles to children.
Framed as a mother giving advise to her daughter, we see the way in which the mother is trying
to convince/coerce her daughter into being a specific type of woman (one who cleans, is focused
on the needs of men, follows a traditional kind of sexual morality, etc.) whether or not her
daughter wants to be that kind of woman.

From a feminist perspective, we can
say that this shows the way in which gender roles, tradition, and the power structure of the
family all function to suppress...

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