Gender Roles In The Wizard Of Oz

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It is very interesting the way Jackson Katz interpreted the character in the Wizard of Oz. The powerful and violent masculine character is questioned by a girl about his aggressive masculinity and he realized that his behavior was a mask created in accordance with the prescribed norm that society and media inflicted on men. An interesting point in this movie is that a woman – not a man – change the values of a man authority and he questions and accepts it. This movie was written in the beginning of 20th Century, about hundred years ago, in a strongly patriarchal society where the man was unquestionable, the role of women in a movie was minimal, and the Wizard of Oz present a female protagonist that overcomes adversities instead of being rescued