Nice Girls
Nice Girl” is a term that refers to the way in which a patriarchal society socializes women through a construction of values. These values exert control in the lives of women by restricting them to certain activities and boundaries in her home. Qualities of a “Nice Girl” include being good, clean, kind, virtuous, noncontroversial, and above wrongdoing. Standard for “Nice Girls” are almost always unobtainable and work to prevent women from competing in the economy with men. (http://www.jstor.org/stable/3173211?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents)
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