2. • 2002 American drama-revenge film
• Starring Jennifer Lopez as “Slim” and Billy Campbell as “Mitch”
• “On the run from an abusive husband, a young mother begins
to train herself to fight back”
“Enough”
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• Mitch rationalizes his affairs
Socially constructed “gender”
• Gender stratification and control theory
He is a “man,” the patriarch
The “difference” between men and women
• Violence in the family
The Confrontation
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7. • Influences on the audience’s attitudes:
Sympathy toward Slim and daughter
Anger toward Mitch
• Fosters changes in:
Inequality of power
Out-dated, negative stereotypes
“Enough” as a Media Outlet