Social Determinants
The increasing prevalence of the girlie girl in the early 21st century has been linked to the post-feminist, post-New man construction of masculinity and femininity in mutually exclusive terms, as opposed to the more blurred gender representations of previous decades.
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“In bourgeois society, the French and the industrial revolution transformed the authorization of political space. The political revolution put an end to the formalized hierarchy of the ancien regimé.... Concurrently, the industrial revolution subverted the social hierarchy upon which the old political space was based. It transformed the experience of society from one of vertical hierarchy to one of horizontal class stratification.”
—Donald M. Lowe, U.S. historian, educator. History of Bourgeois Perception, ch. 4, University of Chicago Press (1982)