Iris Marion Young's Throwing Like A Girl

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In Iris Marion Young’s composition Throwing Like a Girl, Young highlights how the body movement of women reflects the stressors of their environment: a patriarchal society. Young places an emphasis on how the behavior of women prioritizes the protection of their bodies, and that the “immediate bodily impulse [of women] is to flee, duck, or otherwise protect [themselves]” (Young 34). I view this as a repercussion of the indisputable fact that men are more often than not the instigators of violence, and women are their most frequent victims. Young sheds light on how the fear perpetuated by a world predominantly centered in the ideals of male chauvinism drives women to complete tasks with “timidity, uncertainty, and hesitancy” (Young 34), as they

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