The culture associated with “Girl” has a definite attitude towards women, believing they should live a modest, conservative lifestyle. In Diaz’s “How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl or halfie”, the cultural associations with women is widespread and varies between race. Although not stated, one can suggest that the dialogue is between a teenage boy and a younger male relative. The older boy is authoritative pushes his advice on how to treat a woman based on her culture, and race. While he suggests how to kindly treat one race of women, he emphasizes on how to womanize another.
When she then returned in the 90s she found that the list had flipped, with jobs and careers being in first place. This shows how attitudes have changed in a short time, making singlehood more popular. Another reason for the growth in singlehood could be the influence feminism has. More women are choosing to live alone, due to having the capacity to do so, as they don’t need the financial stability marriage once gave them. Feminism has
Did your Islamic religion change the way you and the people around you viewed the war? I notice the different types of clothing, traditional or Western, play an important role in how you are viewed because you can express yourself through what you wear. Did the Western type clothing give you or any other women a sense of individuality and respect? 4. Why does the young Fatima prefer to wear her Tunisian clothes to the Western dresses her mother likes her to wear?
If a woman in the distance is wearing a miniskirt and a halter top, one would probably think that she was a teenager or woman in her twenties. But these are all just stereotypes. Even less obvious dimensions of diversity are religion and sexual preference. However, there are instances where a person chooses to wear garb that might make it obvious at a glance to someone what religion that person is. For instance, a thin red string worn around the left wrist is a custom usually associated with Judiasm’s Kabbalah,
Teenagers in the 1950’s vs. 2013, Then and Now So if you were a typical teenager in the 1950’s there are a few things that would make you different just in the way you dress. The popular dress for guys were jeans and white T-shirts, leather jackets, greased back hair or flat tops and some version of a converse shoe. Girls mostly wore dresses and had longer hair styled many different ways including a beehive style. Today guys and girls are wearing things that push the limit in clothes and hairstyles. Clothes are more important now in expressing who you are as a person and the types of clothes you wear tell a lot about you.
The process of transformation entails adapting a text to a contemporary contextual environment in order to make it appeal to modern consciousness. By comparing both Jane Austen’s “Emma” and Amy Heckerling’s “Clueless” it is apparent that the film has been re-appropriated in such a way that Austen’s voice is still heard today while, simultaneously projecting Heckerling’s views on contemporary society. Clueless, Amy Heckerling’s 1995 re-contextualisation of Jane Austen’s Emma replicates Austen’s ironic commentary on the necessity of entering into a relationship that will not challenge status quo. Though Heckerling transforms a 200 year old story to suit modern audiences through a reinvention of the key characters, context, language and form,
For instance any of the advertisements that were beauty product related emphasized how important it is for women to be looking there best, and how each product would allow them to create the best image. An advertisement for the Dory Beauty Masque by Du Barry claims to “erase surface lines, and wrinkles, tones up skin and cleanses pores!”. LIFE’s advertisements seem to be focusing primarily on the physical features of women, and how those features can be improved, and shed little to know insight on intellect etc… Also, women during this era clearly took a strong interest into the world of fashion. In the June issue of Life as well as the April issue, there is a quite detailed article that focuses of female fashion trends as time goes on. Including the influence that other countries had on American fashion, the latest trends that would replace the old ones.
Images drawn by Charles Dana Gibson of the “New Woman” emphasized athleticism and slimness, unconfined by the stiff petticoats of the past; these became known as the Gibson Girl image. These drawings were used in magazines and served as a model for other women to emulate (Bowles, 2011 Sec 2.3). The Gibson Girl portrayed an image of freedom for suffragists who had encountered hostile environments as they struggled to attain political independence. The Gibson Girl was strong-willed, confident about her future, and able to do as she pleased. In my opinion, the Gibson Girl is equivalent to the models young girls and women look up to in today’s time as inspiration to be strong-willed, confident, and free.
Women would no longer be seen as source 4 portrays, but instead gained a level of equality, previously unknown because of stereotypes. Although this was not always followed, with sexual discrimination, and stereotypes still being inflicted on women, it was definitely the beginning of a change for the better. In conclusion, the Women’s Liberation Movement in the post war era has dramatically changed the way in which Australia views, and treats women in a workplace, in law, and in healthcare, as well as the “Perspex Ceiling”, being mostly brought down. The change came directly from the actions of feminists and activists of the early 1900’s to the present day, and although sexism is still alive in Australia, even today, through the Liberation Movements efforts to change women’s rights and freedoms, it has been subdued incredibly since the start of the 20th century. Word count:
These styles had grown popular and women who adopted these styles were called flappers. Flappers wore short and bright skirts, sleeveless dresses, red lipstick, shaped their eyebrows, and were slender. They were more straightforward and drank and smoked. These women had accomplished a feminism that previous ones had not; they wore their hair bobbed and insisted on wearing comfortable clothing that they could move freely in. The freedom women had during this time was apparent.