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Students access prior knowledge of vocabulary on feminism and psychoanalytic theory, and gender schema.  In this Empowered Barbie lesson, students recreate a Barbie doll.  Students write a reflection on how they changed Barbie's body and body image. Students include information on tradition gender roles and how they have changed. Students complete a rubric on each other's Barbie's.

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feminism, women's rights

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11th - 12th
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Science
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