The Other Boleyn Girl

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My community event took place on Oct 30th 2014 at three o’clock in the Willie T Library Auditorium. The event was held by another Gender Women Studies professor to elaborate on Intersectionality and how the film relates to gender women studies and the main topics of this course. The movie that was shown was The Other Boleyn Girl. After the movie there was a discussion that had taken place with everyone who watched the movie discussing topics and opinions of how this film connects to topics within the gender women study courses. The film The Other Boleyn Girl is movie that takes place in sixteenth century England with King Henry and the Boleyn Girls Anne and Mary Boleyn. The King is searching for a girl to be intimate with, so the Boleyn …show more content…

As we can see, the King, the Boleyn’s uncle, father, brother and Stafford these men are the dominant characters throughout this film. The male figures are all in power in this move and are the rulers of the court and King of England. The King presents his power in a significant moment when he rapes Anne. He puts no choice on her and exerts his higher power upon her. Women had no power in the sixteenth century but were always supposed to be there for the man to please him in all aspects of his life. Women have a small ounce of power but only when speaking to another women, for example if Elizabeth Boleyn spoke to Anne or Mary, Elizabeth had the authority in this case. When speaking my thoughts on this film and when listening to others you hear a plethora of different views and standpoints. The Other Boleyn Girl created a high representation of Intersectionality, power, and dominance. Intersectionality is more prevalent throughout the film than I was expecting but as I analyzed their social classes, male and female dominance and how power took over in the sixteenth century it has brought a better understanding or Intersectionality to me. I really took a lot more away from the discussion after the film and enjoyed hearing the ideas that each individual had taken away from this movie. Personally, I feel as if the times have evolved since those times but there’s still a prevalence of the white privilege and male

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