{"id":2701,"date":"2008-02-12T12:50:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T16:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/girls-will-be-girls\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:56:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:56:08","slug":"girls-will-be-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/girls-will-be-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls Will Be Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

A really interesting article on feminism and femininity in the NYT, Girls Will Be Girls<\/a>. L’article rejoint des idées que j’ai déjà exprimées dans mon entrée Adieu Madonna<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

(…) Each book (the article points to 2 books) reflects a different vision of feminism, femininity and girlhood, but at its heart is a desire — or perhaps the fervent hope — for girls to have it both ways: to be able to paint their nails and break them too; to embrace whatever it might be that makes them girls in a way that will sustain rather than constrain them<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For decades now, girls have been told that “you can do anything.” “How to Be the Best at Everything,” originally published in England, might as well add “ . . . in heels and lipstick.” It promises lessons on how to “act like a celebrity,” “make your own luxury bubble bath” and “give yourself a perfect manicure.” This is the “I am woman, see me shop” strain of feminism<\/b>, the one that’s given rise to mother-daughter spa packages and endless reruns of “Sex and the City.” Perhaps the shift from purchasing power to purchase empowerment was inevitable: once marriage and motherhood ceased to be the bulwarks of female identity, what remained to distinguish us from men beyond our God-given ability to accessorize?<\/b><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also interesting to see that we are all, men and woman, stuck into our society’s stereotypes…<\/p>\n

Whether girlie or girlist, girls, because they’re allowed more latitude in their identities, can still be girls: Boys, on the other hand, must be boys — unless no one is watching. In another study of younger children, Cherney and London found that if ushered alone into a room and told they could play with anything, nearly half the boys chose “feminine” toys as often as “masculine” ones, provided they believed nobody, especially their fathers, would find out<\/b>.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via Caterina<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A really interesting article on feminism and femininity in the NYT, Girls Will Be Girls. L’article rejoint des idées que j’ai déjà exprimées dans mon entrée Adieu Madonna: (…) Each book (the article points to 2 books) reflects a different vision of feminism, femininity and girlhood, but at its heart is a desire — or… Continue reading Girls Will Be Girls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8303,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/8303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}