Gendered Close Relationships In The Film Crooklyn (1994)

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Chapter 9 Gendered Close Relationships is about stereotypes for men and women ideas on how to behave in relationships. The expectations for male and female in a relationships have been set by their gender roles. The meaning of personal relationships is where partners depend on each other for various things from affection to material assistance. Partners are expected affection, companionship and energy. The two main models of personal relationships are male deficit model and alternate paths model. Male deficit model suggests male lack skills in developing relationships with others. In alternate paths model, men and women just have different ways to sustain a relationship. It’s not that men lack skills but men show it in a different way. Friendship …show more content…

The members of this family presented characteristics of many untraditional gender roles. This movie consisted a nuclear family, including a mother (Carolyn), father (Woody), four sons (Clinton, Wendell, Nate & Joseph), a daughter (Troy), and along with their family treasured dog (Mutley). Carolyn was depicted as the sole breadwinner for the family. She participated in a few gender roles in her family such as, a masculine figure holding authority in the household and a feminine figure that depicts care and unconditional love. She was also a mother figure to the kids outside her home. For example, she talked to the children on the streets and looked out her window to the children. In the late 70’s, it was typical for the male gender to be known as the breadwinner and we saw the switch of gender role in this movie when the wife was characterized as the provider of the family and not the husband. Throughout the movie, Troy took on different gender roles too. It is Troy, who acts as caretaker, who assumes the traditional defined, desirable feminine role.” After Troy visits her mother from the hospital, she showed a change of character, from a child to an adult. She became the caretaker. She cleaned the house, mopped, and did the dishes like what her mother asked her to do prior to her illness. When her mother died she took the mother role. For instance, she became more

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