https://padlet.com/kimberlyvaldez/yo25ql65sbms A movie from 2003 that talks about women conservative thinking between independence to lead and marriage. en-us 2019-12-10 05:01:15 UTC 2024-09-05 16:34:02 UTC hello@padlet.com kimberlyvaldez https://padlet.com/kimberlyvaldez/yo25ql65sbms/wish/422498145 In the movie, one concept that it’s present is sexuality and sex education as something against the conservative schools in 1953. Contraception was seen as synonym of promoting sexual promiscuity, which it was against the law for all social classes in that time. It was all about appearances. Thinking about sexuality or giving contraceptive devices was seen as something liberal and subversive. When a school nurse encouraged promiscuity by giving contraceptives to one female student who was having an active sexual life, she got expelled from the school, and was forced to make a public statement that she would no longer provide contraceptive devices to the school. Nowadays, we’re still ignoring female sex education in schools as an issue in society, but we can notice that sex education is an important topic that has to be teach in schools, and even contraceptives are free and available for students, in order to prevent sexual transmission diseases and pregnancy in young adults.]]> 2019-12-11 00:05:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyvaldez/yo25ql65sbms/wish/422498145 kimberlyvaldez https://padlet.com/kimberlyvaldez/yo25ql65sbms/wish/422522025 Another concept present in the movie is gender roles. In the movie, a professor is judged by declaring war on the holy sacrament of marriage by her subversive and political teachings that encouraged girls to reject the roles they were born to fill as wifes, and start looking for their own success in life. In 1953, girls were planned, taught and modeled to choose a good husband that was going to give them a house and a family. Girls didn't aspire for more in life after marriage.In society nowadays, we found that women, based on culture, is a stereotype of domestic and dependent. Women need to be beautiful and submissive to be accepted by society. Women need to be fragile, vulnerable and less powerful. Men are shown as bigger, stronger and more powerful, tough and insensitive. While women need to be weak. The difference is gender inequality, cultural and social construction about the stereotype from woman and man.]]> 2019-12-11 01:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyvaldez/yo25ql65sbms/wish/422522025 kimberlyvaldez https://padlet.com/kimberlyvaldez/yo25ql65sbms/wish/422533384 Another concept that is important in this movie is class inequality. The difference between the rich and the poor. Who had the power and acceptance from society? What girl was eligible for a good husband and who was not? Who was studying  at a good school like Harvard and who didn’t? In 1953 everything was all about appearances. They judged you depending on your economic status or how important your family was in society. Class was so conservative that getting a divorce was a symbol of failure and rejection from high class. Class inequality refers to the advantages and disadvantages of power and prestige in society. This means that there’s class advantage involved depending on the income, it also depends on the economic position that a given individual or family has. Social relations tend to be related with class, such as race and gender, and also society within class can also be related with conflict and power. ]]> 2019-12-11 02:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyvaldez/yo25ql65sbms/wish/422533384 kimberlyvaldez https://padlet.com/kimberlyvaldez/yo25ql65sbms/wish/422535211 My movie proposal is the Mona Lisa Smile film. It is a movie from 2003 that talks about women conservative thinking between independence to lead and marriage. The theme of this movie is when an art teacher encourages their women students to be independent and keep studying, in order to be someone important in life. But what their students want, or what their society expects from them, is to get married and start a family, not seeing education as their priority number one. I choose this movie because is related with class inequality, gender roles and sex education are the primary issues based on society. ]]> 2019-12-11 02:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyvaldez/yo25ql65sbms/wish/422535211