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Daddy's Little Girl: A Provacative Feminist Critique of Purity Balls

@inproceedings{Freitag2011DaddysLG,
  title={Daddy's Little Girl: A Provacative Feminist Critique of Purity Balls},
  author={Jennifer L. Freitag},
  year={2011}
}
Amandajean Freking Nolte’s 2009 production of Daddy’s Little Girl critiques the recently popular upsurge of purity balls through her sexualized staging of a hymen-enforcing ball: a wedding-like event that exposes the heteronormative romance narrative, the commodification of girls’ bodies in a system of social exchange, and the eroticized sexual control of girls’ bodies by their fathers. Daddy’s Little Girl situates audience members as co-participants in a purity ball, then distances them… 
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