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The American Woman’s Image Through Film

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the American woman’s image through film. In so doing, this paper reviewed over twenty films. Each film review includes an essay on the history of American woman. It also explores the gap between images and realities about the American women. This study is divided into five major carts: American women’s history. gender issue. family values. job experience. and minority women in American society. The historical experience of the two sexes was in many important ways profoundly different. It has been relatively easy for historians La see that economic and political developments affected men’s lives. The women’s activities, however, has often been discounted and rarely been understood For the discussion of American woman’s history. this part examined five major movies 〈The Scarlet Letter〉, 〈The Cruciable〉. 〈Gone with the Winds〉. 〈The Little Women〉. 〈The Great Getsby〉. These movies were about various subjects such as puritanism witchcraft. Civil War. and new woman. For women. Puritans had special expectations and understood there to be special punishments. If the most cherished values of the Puritan community we re hierarchy and order, then it was an easy step to the condemnation of those who diu not accept their place in it. Witchcraft prosecutions were endemic throughout the Puritan colonies in America and exploded into the famous outbreak in Salem. Massachusetts in 1692. during which nearly 200 people. three-quarters of them women. were executed. It was definitely gender specific. a woman’s crime. To American women who lived through it, the Civil War was the most traumatic experience of nineteenth century. As the “flapper”-the new woman of the post-war decade-changed her attitude toward the consumption of alcoholic beverages. so she also rapidly changed those pertaining to courtship, marriage. and the rearing of"" children In essence, the flapper of the twenties demanded the same social freedom for herself that man enjoyed. The second part of this study discussed about the gender issues such as sisterhood, lesbianism. sexual violence. and abortion. 〈The Thelma and Louis〉. 〈The Bound〉, 〈The Dolores Claiborn〉. 〈The Accused〉, and Of These Walls Could Talk〉 are the major movies. Sex refers to biological differences that are unchanging: gender involves the meaning that a particular society and culture attach to sexual difference. Because that meaning varies over time and among cultures. gender differences are both socially constructed and subject to change. Understanding the difference between sex and gender provides a key to understanding the differences in men’s and women’s historical experience. Sexual violence is violence. not sex. and it. is a public. not private matter Rape crisis centers battered women’s shelters are expressions of their insistence that government respond to male violence against women Feminists also attack directly the notion that female victims of violence arc in some measure to blame by virtue of provocative dress and behavior or prior sexual experience. On profound questions of birth. death, and human choice that were raised by abortion. The abortion debate in the United States involved all Americans in complex questions of sex and power. and competing social values. The family values have been one of the most important political issues. The movies -〈Icestorm〉. 〈The American Beauty〉. 〈The Bridges of Madison County〉. 〈Mrs. Doubfire〉. and 〈Stepmom〉-provide the idea about the various problems of the American family. Gender differences in life cycles and family experiences have been a central factor in that divergence. The films about the American women in the workplace-〈Erin Brockvich〉. 〈Courage Under Fire〉. 〈Working Girl〉 and 〈The Associates-show economic hardships, discrimination, and glass ceiling.