... for the most part are portrayed to have to work longer hours, sacrifice family time or make many business trips, in many occasions women are displayed as sex objects on the big screen who have to sleep their way to the top. Carolyn Burnham (Annette Benning) is a wife, a mother and a real estate ... career but rather an image. Another image of women blown out of proportion by Hollywood is that of the teenaged girl and her willingness to use sex as a tool to increase popularity. This was shown very throughout the entire film of "American Beauty" with Mena Suvari's character Angela Hayes. A ...

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... that in these earlier studies, girls were defined solely in terms of their relations to male gang members (Cambell, 1990, p.166). Are they sex objects or tomboys? Individual females are portrayed in terms of their sexual activity, with an occasional mention of their functions as weapon carries for male gang ... bad girl role. Good girls are modest and feminine, bad girls are not. The accuracy of early descriptions of female gang members as sex objects and tomboys is difficult to judge because there is not enough reliable data. In most historical information about female gangs comes from j...

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