from: Tracie
My four year old niece Danielle stops to pose for a photograph while getting ready for her first ballet recital. I included the open bathroom and bedroom doors, and the toys in the background because they have significance in her gender role. Like most young girls she is given baby dolls and make-up so she may make her self look “beautiful”. Part of the stool in the bathroom is included in this photo because it will help her to be able to see herself in the mirror and analyze herself before recital or going anywhere in general. The toys are included to represent how little girls are targeted to play with baby dolls and teddy bears to learn how to take care of a “child” or an animal and then it may make them develop emotions for those items. Her outfit has a large significance in this photo because it shows how even at young ages girls are given “seductive” clothing to feel pretty or good about themselves and look like a princess while they dance for an audience. The picture was taken in the hallway to show that young girls have very little options of choosing what they want to be. They are directed towards princesses and ballerinas. The open doors represent that they may later chose another option, such as tomboy, but are pushed towards being feminine with the small pink outfits and “pretty colored” toys.
2 comments:
I like this picture because it proves that young girls are thrown into liking pink at birth. At as young of an age as three mothers will want their daughter to participate in dance, or gymnastics or even cheerleading because they are the girlie and they may grow up to become a girlie girl. Being a girl aswell as being girlie is more acceptable than having a girl that dresses in boyish looking clothes
I dont think that the girl could be any more gender roles, she has girlie toys, make up, and she is a ballerina. Ballerinas are the quintessential mark of female beauty. Every girl wants to be a ballerina because they are graceful and beautiful. And why is it that young girls have to be seductive to feel beautiful? I like the hallway shot, the point about girls having few doors in the future. Everything is put together nicely really showing that unless you fall into these roles, you arent going to be able to do much.
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