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Tema: Modal verbs
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Observaciones y contexto
Helen Gurley Brown's literary and publishing activity takes place during the second half of the 20th century in the United States, a context in which there are many women writing about women's rights and freedoms, as well as developing literary activity, and taking control of the business and publishing world.
This change of attitude was influenced by new visions that appeared during the 20th century in the field of science:
Margaret Mead published a study (Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, 1935) that questioned the sexist biologicist vision that said that the sexual division of labor in the modern family was due to an innate difference, which made men have an instrumental role (public, productive) and women an expressive role. Against this Margaret Mead proposed that, since the human species is enormously malleable, sexual roles and behaviors vary according to sociocultural contexts. She was thus a forerunner in the use of the concept of gender, which was later widely used in feminist studies.
Gloria Steinem, journalist and feminist activist, was recognized as the spokesperson for the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Steinem worked as a columnist for New York magazine and co-founded Ms. magazine.
Dorothy Schiff was a businesswoman, owner and publisher of the New York Post for forty years.
Coretta Scott King, singer, writer, activist and leader of the civil rights movement of the 1960s in the United States. After the death of her husband Martin Luther King she also joined the struggle for the rights of the LGTBI community and took an active stand against apartheid.
Subsequently:
Kate Millet, among other feminist activists, criticized the message conveyed by Brown and Cosmopolitan magazine.
However, Jennifer Scanlon, professor of women's studies and author of Bad Girls Go Everywhere, Brown's biography (2009), pointed out that her message made Brown a feminist even if the movement did not recognize her as such.
Descripción
Grammar activity focusing on modal verbs.
Starting with a 1980 letter from editor Helen Gurley Brown of Cosmopolitan magazine, students will work with modal verbs. Finally, the students have to continue Helen Gurley's letter using their own ideas.
Commonly used linguistic units and meanings associated with these units: modal verbs.