http://pinterest.com/roxylaporte/girlhood/
My choices were based around what I feel are expectations for how girls should 'look' and how we try to enforce this 'look' on them from the very beginning.
I'm imagining having to clean the high chair tutu after any of my children. Shudder. Must be for someone with a nanny or housekeeper. An example of how girlhood is marketed for different economic levels.
The image of the little girl, Claire I think, and what she loves is really interesting to me. It looks like it was created by her family and not a mass-produced image, but it sticks pretty close to gender stereotypes - she loves shoes, singing, bubbles. What do you make of her love of "choo choos and trucks"? Is that a new gender norm - for little girls to like trucks too?
I'm imagining having to clean the high chair tutu after any of my children. Shudder. Must be for someone with a nanny or housekeeper. An example of how girlhood is marketed for different economic levels.
ReplyDeleteI too, was thinking of the high chair tutu! I find it a bit disturbing that now society is moving toward marketing gendered clothes for furniture!
DeleteThe image of the little girl, Claire I think, and what she loves is really interesting to me. It looks like it was created by her family and not a mass-produced image, but it sticks pretty close to gender stereotypes - she loves shoes, singing, bubbles. What do you make of her love of "choo choos and trucks"? Is that a new gender norm - for little girls to like trucks too?
ReplyDeleteI noticed the "paper doll" was blue and not pink. Based on what I've seen on other boards that stuck out to me as an interesting choice.
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