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Critical Appreciation Reema Bhatia 800-00-1990 Barbie Doll Batch -C by Marge Piercy ENG120 Today's society has a high level of expectations concerning women and their beauty. Despite all the advances of the Women's Movement, women are still expected to fit into a specific mold of prettiness. If they fail to meet these standards they are put aside and placed under a category of unworthiness called ugly. Our society looks at the physical characteristics of women and finds total disregard for their personalities, or qualities as human beings. Marge Piercy's writing grasps the conceptual view of the role women play in a must be beautiful society, and discusses the teasing, loneliness, and the ultimate destruction that the social scene plays in defining beauty in women. Piercy is viewed as a woman of socialist feminist tradition. In this poem Marge Piercy tells the readers about a girl who is going through her teenage years and is facing a lot...

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