Instructions:
Reflecting on the four gender-related videos, write a well-organized and well-supported essay in which you help challenge society’s limiting gender narratives.
****This essay must include no less than SIX citations from the assigned background material. Citations are to be a combination of direct quotations and paraphrased quotations with or without the author`s name. No other sources are to be used for this assignment.****
background material:
4 Ladies get the `cover model` makeover of their dreams ... And then hate the results. (n.d.). Upworthy. Retrieved February 22, 2014, from http://www.upworthy.com/4-ladies-get-the-cover-model-makeover-of-their-dreams-and-then-hate-the-results-11113?c=reccon1
Miss representation. (n.d.). Miss Representation. Retrieved February 21, 2014, from http://film.missrepresentation.org/
The mask you live in. (n.d.). The Representation Project. Retrieved February 22, 2014, from http://therepresentationproject.org/films/the-mask-you-live-in/
Watch these 4 girls destroy the female stereotype like the monsters they are. (n.d.). Upworthy. Retrieved February 22, 2014, from http://www.upworthy.com/watch-these-4-girls-destroy-the-female-stereotype-like-the-monsters-they-are-rw1-9b
Content:
Challenge Society’s Limiting Gender Narratives
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Challenge Society’s Limiting Gender Narratives
The past 100 years have been exceptionally essential in changing society’s perceptions with regard to gender. The Women suffrage movement in 1920 granting women in the US the right to vote. The two world wars changed the perception that women`s role was limited to homemaking. In the absence of men, who were in the European, and Asian theaters of the war, women stepped up and took up positions in factories and industry in support of the US war effort. The result, was that the US emerged as a global world superpower. However, in recent decades, the progress has been watered down significantly. There was an expectation that gender parity ought to have been within reach by now with women in positions of power in government and industry. The paper, therefore, examines the limiting perceptions of gender according to society. The paper will endeavor to examine both sides of the divide. Noting how society limits women through prescribed gender roles and equally examine society`s limitations
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