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In three pages this paper analyzes director John N. Smith’s 1995 film Dangerous Minds within the context of gender dynamics with an application of the observations and concepts featured in Judith Lorber’s 1994 text entitled Paradoxes of Gender. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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female teachers efforts to excite tough urban students she quickly labels as "rebels from hell" to the possibilities of learning (Bass and Johnson). This film lends itself well to
analysis from a gender dynamic perspective because it presents conventional stereotypes, but also explores how these traditional perceptions are being challenged. Judith Lorber, who is Professor Emerita of Sociology
and Womens Studies at The Graduate Center and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and author of several texts including Paradoxes of Gender and Gender and the
Social Construction, has devoted much of her professional life to the study of gender. The observations contained within Paradoxes of Gender, which was published a year before the release
of Dangerous Minds, is applicable to the film because it considers the societally imposed constructs of gender and the attempts of a more sophisticated society to deconstruct them. According to
Judith Lorber, "Individuals are born sexed but not gendered, and they have to be taught to be masculine or feminine" (22). This typically began at birth with a pink
blanket signifying a female baby and a blue blanket signifying a male baby. She then describes how learned gender roles influence behavior well into adulthood. However, Lorber points
out, "Individual actions construct social institutions and therefore... changes in individual behavior can topple social institutions" (Lorber 7). Louanne Johnson attempted to break down restrictive gender barriers by becoming
a U.S. Marine. However, she was to discover that the Marine Corps was a direct reflection of gendered society: "Women recruits in the U.S. Marine Corps are required to
wear makeup - at a minimum, lipstick and eye shadow... This feminization is part of a deliberate policy of making them clearly distinguishable from men Marines" (Lorber 26). Physical
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