Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up
If you are a teenager, care about a teenager, or even were a teenager, you must see this film
2009 · 1h 7m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Debra Chasnoff
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Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up
Overview
A powerful documentary about the lives of teens and young adults as seen through the gender lens. Approaching society's ideas and ideals of gender through clothes, sexuality, sports, dance, safety, consumerism and emotion, the film addresses the complexities of conceptions of masculinity and femininity for Generation Z.
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