A League of Their Own
A League of Their Own is a movie written during a time of war and during a time where women are expected to stay at home and tend to the womanly duties. This movie demonstrates many issues that women faced in this time as well as in society today. Three main things this movie reveals are women being too masculine, women trying to live up to someone else's standards, and the double-bind they all faced.
In the commentary of the career of higher education it was said that women were plucked from their families to see who could be the most masculine. Scouts were looking for girls to play baseball. This was to keep the people at home entertained and Mr. Harvey making money, as stated in the movie, women playing baseball was leading to the enormous dangerous consequences of masculization to the home, children, and our country, as well as a disgusting example of sexual confusion. What would our men be coming home too?
Raised by her widow father, Marla Hooch is......
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