Analysis Of Dolly Parton

In response to the tabloids body shaming, Dolly began to answer interview questions about her weight in hopes of setting the record straight. She explained in an interview with Vanity Fair that her cycles of weight gain and weight loss were the result of personal heartbreak. This answer “played into the rise and fall narratives of love and loss, sin and redemption, popular with country audiences”. Consequently, Dolly regained control over the conversations of her body by providing a story that was much more appealing to the tabloid’s audience. Dolly’s self-empowerment challenged the media’s division of a southern woman’s body and self by connecting her physical appearance to her intimate emotions.

As previously mentioned, the film was heavily

Steel Magnolias was an adaption of Robert Harling’s play of the same name. The story was based off his experience with his sister’s death due to Type 1 diabetes. At the time of the film’s release, Reagan had just left the presidency and George Bush entered office. The shift towards conservative politics brought on by Reagan continued to cause social anxiety and conflict in what some refer to as “the war on women’s rights.” On April 9, over three hundred thousand protestors marched on DC in support of legal abortion. Then in July, the Supreme Court reached a decision in the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services that gave individual states the right to restrict abortion. Finally, on October 23rd President Bush vetoed a bill that would have provided funding for abortions for women who were victims of rape or incest. He appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court and stood by this nomination even after Anita Hill came forward with sexual harassment claims. After this, Bush lost the support of moderate, and some conservative, women. Despite these struggles, feminism was on the decline in part because of the severe backlash against the movement in the media. This resulted in the rise of the postfeminist, a woman who believed feminism had accomplished its main objectives and now it was time to alienate themselves from the

Steel Magnolias is a paradigmatic example of movement to high sentimentality in the 1980s p. 42

• Steel Magnolias was filmed on location in Natchitoches, Louisiana and directed by Herbert Ross. 1991 Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women by Susan Faludi o Southern chick flicks on the heels of conservation reactions against gains made in women 's liberation during the 1960s and the 1970s o " Hollywood producers influenced by the backlash trend in the media, created a series of movies that pitted the angry career woman against the domestic maternal "Good woman"."