'Appropriated Research'

Alice blog

Both men and women may cross-dress in order to disguise their true identity. Historically, some women have cross-dressed in order to take up male-dominated or male-exclusive professions, such as military service. Conversely, some men have cross-dressed in order to escape from mandatory military service. Mulan (1998)

In this paragraph Alice mentiones how some people may cross-dress to hide their identity. In Charlie's Angels- Full Throttle, their are small scenes where the angels have cross dressed to hide their identity so they can pass their mission.

Jaskeerat blog

There is much male dominance in the scene and there are connotations of patriarchy especially as Shaun comes up with several failed plans. The plans mainly consist of Ed and Shaun saving the two damsels in distress, Barbara (Shaun’s mum) and Liz (Shaun’s girlfriend). Shaun is conveyed as the hero, Ed acts as the donor and the helper, helping with the development of the plan and Liz is the princess (Propp).

Propps theory on character roles is useful to my independent. The hero's in Charlies Angels are Diaz, Barrymore and Lui. The helper and the donor is Bosley, who helps then on their missions. My film also challenges patriachy as the females are shown as the protagonists rather that the usual male.

Jatinder blog

This shows that Thurman's character is the reciepiant of male violence as is a weak person in this particualr scene. She is not able to get her revenge on Budd as it is Elle Driver who is the one who kills him. This could reflect that women (Thurman's character) are subordinate to men and Tarantino is carrying on the hegemonic model of representation. He is mainting the status quo of a patriarchal society, men are mainting their power.

Furthermore, Tarantino can also be accused of using the "bitchy" stereotype about women in kill bill. This is because Thurman's character murders or tortures former friends, 5 women. She tortures Sofie Fatale by cutting her limbs off and kills Copperhead infront of her own child. This reinforces the stereotype that women cannot get along with one another.

However, a different viewpoint can be taken illustrating that Tarantino is liberating women in this film. For example Thurman's character massacres the Crazy 88 (who were all men) and the ring leader of the Deadly Vipers, Bill. Here, Tarantino could be reflecting that women are now becoming just as important as men in society and the mass killings could represent the frustration women have had over the years.

This is useful to me because i wil talk about patriachy in my film and Kill Bill is one of my other texts. This talks about how patriachy, male domination is present in the film which is the opporsite to Charlies Angels so i can use this as my debate i have while answering my question.

Navdeep blog

Feminism = equal rights for men and women

First-wave feminism:
Feminist movement in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, which primarily focused on gaining the right of women's suffrage. The term was not used during the time of the movement; the term was coined retroactively after second-wave feminism began to be used to describe a newer feminist movement- being able to vote and freedom of speech.

Second-wave feminism:
Feminist thought that originated around the 1960s and was mainly concerned with independence and greater political action to improve women's rights. By this time women and teenagers were getting more stronger.

Third-wave feminism:
Feminist movement that arguably began in the early 1990s. Unlike second-wave feminism, which largely focused on the inclusion of women in traditionally male-dominated areas, third-wave feminism seeks to challenge and expand common definitions of gender and sexuality- lesbians.

Feminism is an area i will be looking at and mentioning it in my study as i will be able to talk about women in the past and how they have changed over the decades and how fiminism may be the reason women were able to become more independent and challenge patriachy.