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A paper which looks at the treatment of gender roles in Smedley's Daughter of Earth and Curtiz's Mildred Pierce, with reference to the influence of male dominated socio-cultural values in both works. Bibliography lists 5 sources
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differences in gender role portrayals in Smedleys "Daughter of Earth" and Curtizs "Mildred Pierce", then probably the most immediately apparent difference between the two works is that Smedley writes from
an autobiographical perspective, delineating what might be termed an atypical female life from the female point of view, whereas Curtiz is observing a traditional female lifestyle from a male perspective.
The structure of Smedleys novel, with its somewhat
fragmentary, non-linear style, emphasises not only the diversity of her own experiences, in terms of travel and exposure to different social and political perspectives, but also her rejection of the
highly constrained and formalised lifestyle which would have been much more typical of a woman of her time. She does not totally avoid some degree of conformity to traditional female
role models - marriage, for example - and one might even say that her consistent defence of the oppressed and disadvantaged reflects the protective, maternal aspect of the feminine, but
for the most part her actions and behaviours are far more in line with the Western socio-cultural model of the male, rather than the female.
She does not confine herself to a single domestic location, and is overtly
active in politics: her associates tend to be in the spheres of intellectualism and politics and she perceives herself as an autonomous individual, as opposed to a subordinate member of
a family or community group. Women of the time, for example, were not usually to be found as war correspondents. It is evident, however, that she did not see her
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