  This timely program examines male and female stereotypes and shows how literature, art, movies, media and pop songs perpetuate artificial masculine and feminie roles. Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Byron eulogize the stereotypical woman--fair-haired, beautiful, unobtainable--and songs like "The Girl That I Marry" cherish this same myth. The history of sexual stereotypes is traced through passages from Gary Shaw's "Meat On The Hoof," Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar," and Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex," among others. 36 minutes. |