Real_Women_Have_Curves

Real Women Have Curves Since the day we were brought into this world we have been given a specific gender, and with that given gender came certain roles, and expectations for that gender. Girls are wrapped up in pink blankets, get their ears pierced and are given dollhouses, dolls, and kitchen setups as toys, thereby enforcing society’s expectations for girls to be the nurturing sex, and one that also does the cooking and cleaning. The boys are placed in blue hats and given guns, cars and sporting objects. Boys are expected to be the tough, go getters in society. In the two movies we’ve watched thus far, Real Women Have Curves and Billy Elliot, both of them have used this gender role expectation as their main focus. Starting with Real Women Have Curves, Anna, a recently graduated high school student has dreams of being the first girl in her family to go to college and to escape women, curves, anna, carmen, anna’s, family, mother, one, movie, high, go, woman, teacher, school, herself, gender, education, york, way, real, new, life, help, given, day, work, tells, store, should, mother’s, love, going, goes, expectations, due