Stuff I Write for School

A Feminist Analysist of Jamaica Kincaid’s Girl Dayna Wilson / 300113188 ENGL 1102 – 050 Dr. Diane Stiles 08 February 2021 745 Words     As today’s generation of fourth wave feminists are quick to express, simply existing as a woman is frequently an exhausting endeavour. While women might experience more freedoms today than our sisters of the past, it is undeniable that despite any advances made we still have far to go. Jamaica Kincaid’s 1978 poem Girl , in which a mother impresses a litany of seemingly random advice upon her daughter, is a telling glimpse into a society that reduces the worth of a woman into her value as a sexual object while simultaneously chastising her for any expression of that sexuality.             While advice to the daughter is initially primarily innocuous and focused on general instructions for cooking, cleaning, and caring for a household, a focus on appearance runs throughout. The mother tells her daughter how to “make yourself a nice blou

              “My Love is Not Fragile”: An Examination of Relationship Dynamics in Disney’s Frozen Film Series       Dayna Wilson - 300113188 Women and Feminism: Contemporary Issues GSWS 1101 – 001 Dr. Sally Mennill 1375 Words 8 February 2021   When the Walt Disney Company released their first animated classic princess movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , a long tradition of introducing young children to idealized romance was born. The next 75 years of princess classics produced by Disney showed little variance from the established fairy tale romance trope: prince rescues woman, marriage ensues. While later films attempted to afford more agency to their central female characters, with The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast both including scenes where the female character rescues the prince over the course of the story, both conclude with a dramatic showdown between prince and villain. Once the brave prince has defeated his foe, he is rewarde