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Is Barbie’s Body Possible to Achieve?

July 2, 2017April 3, 2019
Marina DelVecchio
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The following is an infographic from Rehabs.com and their post on “Dying to be Barbie,” which focuses on Barbie and how the physical endowments of the doll influence eating disorders among girls and women as well as self-loathing and body

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Feminist Gaze: Study Finds 6-Year-Old Girls Want to Be Sexy

June 29, 2017June 28, 2017
Marina DelVecchio
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Christy Starr and Gail Ferguson, psychologists at Knox College, Illinois, co-wrote an article that gained a huge readership on the web recently. They conducted a study in which they interviewed sixty girls between the ages of 6 and 9. The

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Domesticating Wonder Woman: the Feminist Gaze vs. the Male Gaze

June 22, 2017June 22, 2017
Marina DelVecchio
Feminist Gaze

When Laura Mulvey coined the phrase “the male gaze” in her “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” paper back in 1975, it was to reveal the ways in which images of women in film are reduced to objects subjected to a

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Feminist Gaze: Moana, Patriarchy, and the Glass Ceiling

November 29, 2016November 29, 2016
Marina DelVecchio
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Watching the newest Disney movie, Moana, was very much like watching women pounding their fists against glass ceilings in feeble attempts to be heard as they follow their instincts for solving real-life problems. Moana is a young Princess from the

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Feminist Gaze on Grey’s Anatomy and Feminism

November 13, 2016November 28, 2016
Marina DelVecchio
Feminist Gaze

I still watch Grey’s Anatomy. I haven’t missed an episode since it aired. And now that I have cancelled cable and rely on Netflix for my shows, I spend the last hour of my evening — after my grading is done,

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Feminist Gaze: Rihanna’s “Rude Boy”

October 27, 2016October 15, 2016
Marina DelVecchio
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Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” belongs under one category: the Trash! When I was in High school, I had the kind of mother that played her music in the car: Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Schubert, and Beethoven, to name a few, but you

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Feminist Gaze: Girls of Glitz and Glamour

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October 25, 2016October 26, 2016
Marina DelVecchio
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A few days ago I was flipping through the channels trying to find Dora for my daughter, and was struck in the face with yet another commercial geared for little girls between the ages of 5-11. As usual, I sat

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Feminist Gaze: Cristina Yang and Barbara Walters

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October 20, 2016October 15, 2016
Marina DelVecchio
Feminist Gaze

Sandra Oh has left Grey’s Anatomy, and frankly, she was the show; for the past nine years, I only tuned in to watch how her character, Cristina Yang, would break yet another stereotype, yet another normative female behavior. And she never failed me. Her

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Feminist Gaze: Female Agency in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

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October 18, 2016October 15, 2016
Marina DelVecchio
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My students recently asked me which movie I thought passed the Bechdel test, and without thinking, I named the only one that came to mind: Zero Dark Thirty. It’s the only movie I’ve seen that centers on a female protagonist who moves

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Feminist Gaze: Sex, Women, and Music

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October 17, 2016October 15, 2016
Marina DelVecchio
Feminist Gaze

I was just watching the elimination process of American Idol’s 2010 show and was immediately struck by the entertainment they featured that year: Jason DeRulo, David Archuleta, and Rihanna. And because of the feminist lens through which I view events in this world

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