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Go Ask Alice: Second-Wave Feminism

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Go Ask Alice Paper After reading the book and watching the movie “Go Ask Alice” my classmates and I figured out that both the movie and the book have a hidden message(s) in them. They both relate to second wave feminism. There are many examples listed in the book and shown throughout the movie. They both showed us that even know women had gotten far at trying to become equal, there were some things that still needed to be addressed. Alice does not think about these too much but ends up spending most of her teen life being taken advantage of. The first thing that was noticed is that men still had a dominant control over women. Alice was constantly pressured into doing things that she didn’t always want to do. I noticed then when a man asked

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