Blog 1
Alyssa Galvan WMST 205 Blog 1 Prompt 1: The cultural artifact I chose to reflect what it means to be a woman, is the song Flawless , by Beyoncé. There is an excerpt in the middle of the song read by a Nigerian author named Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This author is known as the most prominent acclaimed Anglophone author in which the excerpt was taken from a speech she did. The lyrics talk about what society expects and assumes about women. The lyrics mention what a female should typically be taught growing up. https://genius.com/2548189 Prompt 2: The excerpt talks about what society teaches females on how to behave, act, what to do, what not to do, and what they are expected of. It says that we teach girls to make themselves smaller, to have ambition and success but not as much as a man has. That women are expected to make life choices that revolve around marriage because it is the most important thing to achieve as a female. She then questions why we teac...