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h a character's growth from childhood to adulthood changes throughout the book. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a perfect example of using the technique of a Bildungsroman throughout the novel. We will see how the protagonist, Esperanza in The House on Mango Street, will grow mentally and physically. Here are three specific vignettes in The House on Mango Street that will show how Bildungsroman is used; these are “Hips”, “The First Job” and “Papa Who Wakes Up in the Dark”. Body Paragraph 1 Topic Sentence:

Louise Halfe’s “Body Politics” challenges the qualities and behaviour of the idealized feminine woman by contrasting the stereotypical “city woman” with a more masculine “real woman.” The poem’s speaker describes her mother’s opinion of what it means to be a real woman, which is seen through “Mama said.” Throughout the poem, the speaker uses vivid imagery to create a stark contrast between the idealized feminine “city woman” and a “real woman” who does not conform to the feminine gender norm. To begin with, the title of the poem itself can be viewed as an obvious critique of the feminine ideal. By definition a body politic is a group of people “considered as a collective unit” (Merriam-Webster). This is significant because in Butler’s theory, she emphasizes that a person’s gender can vary depending on a given situation, and therefore women cannot be grouped together and defined exclusively by their feminine qualities. Instead, she argues that women should be viewed as individuals capable of possessing both masculine and feminine behaviour. This belief relates directly to the poem’s title, as Halfe is clearly making a statement on the manner in which patriarchal societies expect women to conform to a singular feminine ideal. Moreover, it illustrates how women’s bodies become a political site for the masculinist culture to impose feminine gender on. With consideration to the title’s reference to a homogeneous group of women, it is interesting that stanzas two through four all

(BBC network, 2014). It can also force people to change in character, which is a growing concern. Sexualisation in our society has become extremely prevalent within the younger female gender. Some may dismiss this issue as no more than yet another moral panic situation between sexuality and young girls, but some see this as a serious subject and some of these people are in fact the girls being targeted (Church, 2014). The music industry with their music

The documentaries Dream World 3 and Killing Us Softly 4 examine the exploitation of women within the media. The media, such as advertisement and the music video industry, relies heavily on the seductive image of female sexuality. Evident in not only every genre of music, but also every form of advertisement, the videos and advertisements expose and, subsequently sexualize the female body. Such sexualization inevitable leads to

Media influence has caused beauty to evolve into ideals that can’t actually be attained. In addition to this, women are objectified and seen as sex objects, being sexualized by men without consequence due to the normalcy the media has created for genders. In fact, men are even encouraged to sexualize women. During her TEDTalk, Kilbourne presented a photo of an adolescent boy wearing a shirt that stated “pimp squad,” showing how our society is comfortable with men sexualizing women from a very young age. In contrast, women are labeled as sluts or whores without even engaging in sexual activity. I, for example, have been called a slut for wearing leggings, merely talking to a guy, and even wearing shorts— in the summer.

Allen’s music video introduces half-naked women committing sexual acts in a provocative scene to establish the role of women in pop culture as dehumanizing. The scene starts with Allen joining the female dancers, clothed enough to barely cover their genitals, beginning their dance routine. As Allen sings, the dancers are seen performing the twerk, and the video zooms on the dancer’s genitals as the dancers lick their hands and slap their genitals. Allen’s incendiary scene highlights women as needing to be overly sexualized in music videos and performing suggestive behaviors to be included in pop culture. This scene dehumanizes women in music videos because women are expected to behave and dress in a specific manner or not be included in the

Raunchy behavior in women has and continues to play a very crucial role in society. “Raunch culture” is said to be exploitative of a woman’s sex in order to attain certain social standings. Although this behavior is mostly reflected in the way women present themselves, men play an important role in this culture as well. Men have always been viewed as the primary leaders in: music, entertainment television, media, businesses, politics, and relatively any other position of power, while women have always had little to no say at all in any of these industries. More and more women are encouraged to dress provocatively, use their physical appearance, and behave in risqué behavior in order to achieve a less than equal position to men working in the same fields. In order for

In Lucille Clifton’s, “Homage to My Hips”, she sings the melody of the power of her hips. Proclaiming all that they can do and how her hips cannot be oppressed. Clifton uses formal elements such as repetition, shape, and enjambment in “Homage to My Hips” to push through the speaker’s feminist declaration of reclaiming her body and exploring body love.

While I was reading “The Naked Crowd” by Jeffrey Rosen, it only took me a few pages to determine his motives through this writing piece. In the few paragraphs that I read read, I got the impression that Rosen was using all these high vocabulary words and definitions to really catch the reader’s attention. I had to really lock down and focus to really capture Rosen’s main idea. I got the sense that she wanted the future and present society to separate themselves from the illusion between an emotional connection and security. Thus being said, I can still be far off because truly it was very difficult for me to analyze this reading. I had to look up many definitions and terms but doing so helped me understand a little clearer. I enjoyed how he

The physical body has been seen as many things both positive and negative. It can be thought of as the temple which houses the soul or can be seen as entrapping, like a cage of flesh. More often it seems that the body, especially women’s bodies, are looked at in more complicated ways than the bodies of men. As I grew up, it began to feel more and more like my body, and the bodies of other women, did not actually belong to us like we believed. Through my Women’s Studies class I have gained more knowledge on the body as a political object. In this essay I will examine six different articles with the similar theme of women’s bodies, the expression of those bodies and how by using feminism as a political standpoint they gain power and ownership of their bodies.

Margaret Atwood’s “The Female Body” is a satirical piece written in seven parts as a response to a letter from the Michigan Quarterly Review. The article is intended for the general public and is written in a humourous, smirking tone. The satirical bent is evident from the beginning, with Atwood describing impersonally her own body, or “topic”, conveying a sense discomfort and laying groundwork for her main argument, that female bodies have historically been viewed as objects. In the second section she catalogs accessories that come included with a female body such as items of clothing, body parts, makeup and piercings. The author’s argument is that women are not considered to be women unless they are decorated and she mocks the notion that their bodies come fully loaded with features and add-ons not unlike a vehicle.

An example of this in ‘Sex and The City’ would be the character Samantha’s confidence always being compared to a man’s ego or another character Charlotte sleeping with two different guys in one night being seen as her turning into a man. Levy searches for answers, in an attempt to comprehend why this raunch culture, which can also be thought of as pornification, is so appealing to women who are young and educated as well as young female adolescents. She questions stripping and wants to understand why the mere act of mimicking sexual poses and flashing ones ‘assets’ is believed to be sexually freeing. Levy finds that these women and teenage girls do not fully grasp the act of sex itself, that it is separate from raunch and sexual appeal. They dress provocatively knowing that it will get the male attention they are seeking but they do not understand sex and the pressures that come with it.

A lot stood out to me from each clip. Beginning with the first one, the video really demonstrated how women are suppose to just be pretty and silent. We are not supposed to have opinions and it really kind of made me mad that the video joked about how educated women are ugly. I think that this is almost because guys feel intimidated by educated women. The next one on PMS was kind of funny but also kind of ridiculous. It was also very gender norm in the way that the man was of course watching sports. I think it would be kind of a cool idea though for guys to keep track of when their significant other is on their period or PMSing. That is just being an active partner in my opinion. I also really think that guys should be more educated and aware of the female body and what we are actually going through because it is kind of terrible.

This construction reinforces control over young women’s sexual expression. Faus highlights how it forces women to partake in this patriarchal culture where women’s bodies are under control

An article argues that “we are living in a new world where the categories of male and female are rapidly being updated all around us”. Several female celebrities have demonstrated their position concerning Free the Nipple. Chrissy Teagen suffered from a nip slip, and when Twitter users decided to hate on her, she decided to make a joke out of the accident. Women are ready to shatter the idea that their breasts being exposed are something they should be ashamed of. How society especially certain men and traditional women perceives the female body is certainly being challenged. For example, after years of women being humiliated for breastfeeding in public, Free the Nipple, fights, and updates the assumption. Female breasts should be accepted into society as what they are intended to be. Breasts are solely body parts whose sexual intentions should be defined by those with said