Susan Douglas’s “ Where the Girls Are” is a book that captures life from the perspective of a woman growing up in the 1960s, soon after the baby boom generation. Professor Douglas’s purpose for writing this book was to illustrate the role of media depictions in dictating and reinforcing what society believed women should or should not be. She also exposes the conflicting values of what it meant to be a woman in society versus what it means to be American. More specifically, she is highlighting how difficult it was to balance between those two very different ideas and values. Douglas throughout her piece brings light to how the feminist movement came to be, why it was so important to women during that time and analyzed how intersectionality added another layer to it all. Fortunately, today’s sexist behavior is publicly shamed but there is still a lot of passive and subtle sexism that lives on when unchecked. My ultimate takeaway after diving into her piece is that although we have come...