Gender and Inequality Onscreen

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Gender and Inequality Onscreen
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) – Beauty Pageant Clip, End of Film
As the “author” of “`Something Else Besides a Mother’: Stella Dallas and the Maternal Melodrama,” I believe that the beauty pageant scene from the end of the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine is particularly illustrative of the issue of gender inequality. This essay will argue the thesis that this film is important both sociologically and in terms of gender inequality in particular, as it highlights how relations between women – are especially between mothers and daughters – are critically impacted by gender inequalities in the larger social context.
The film Little Miss Sunshine depicts the experiences of the dysfunctional Hoover family – a father,...

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