Alfred Hitchcock and Women Alfred Term Paper

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Among these were women's inaccessibility to birth control and proper information about their own sexuality, the lack of knowledge about which caused many women to suffer health and social problems.

It is not only the overtly sexual scenes that show parts of a woman's body like the famous shower scene in Psycho or the depiction of sexual tension in L.B. Jeffries' room in Rear Window, therefore, that suggest Hitchcock's progressive attitude towards women. Instead, his depicting women as promiscuous reveals that they have choices about their own sexuality, and are not confined to the sexual rules forced upon them by society.

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Although the promiscuity is often punished by murder, one can argue that this is not a punishment for the women, but rather a punishment for society who did not acknowledge the sexuality of women and now must pay for this oversight.

Although many claim that Alfred Hitchcock's films are misogynistic and back up these claims with evidence from the films, the same evidence can be used to suggest Hitchcock's progressive trends. The negative portrayals of Hitchcock's women, therefore, can be implied as society's faults, while the progressive attitude toward women suggests their capabilities.

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