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True British culture valorizes and celebrates football, unlike Sikh culture but both cultures are hostile to female participation in sports, and female physical prowess. Even British culture suggests that a girl cannot hope to be a soccer star like a boy, jut as according to Jess' Indian culture; a girl should not play soccer at all without losing her femininity.
Playing sports is seen as sexual in Jess' mother's eyes. The woman states that the game consists of "displaying your bare legs to complete strangers." Of course, British culture approves of such leg displays, but only for the approval of male desire, not for female empowerment through the medium of sports. British culture tends to see female sporting excellence not as dangerously sexual and immoral, like Sikh culture, but potentially rendering the female body more like the male body. For instance, Julliette, the girl who first motivates Jess to make her sports dreams come true, is pressed by her own mother to wear a Wonder bra. Julliette's failure to obey conventional feminine norms of the dress causes her mother to accuse the girl of being...
Her parents do not merely object to the fact she prefers football to cooking the perfect meal for her future husband, but have more deep seated fears about fitting into British culture. Jess' father played cricket in Uganda but had to stop when the local London club excluded him from the sport he loved because of his faith. He fears, the film makes clear, not the display of his daughter's legs to the eyes of British men, but her heart being broken in her attempts to excel at a traditionally English sport. Yet Jess evidentially gets her sporting talent from her father, and her participation in football brings her closer to her parents, rather than closer to either a British or masculine ideal.
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Bend it Like Beckham." Written and Directed by Gurinder Chadra. 2002.
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Bend it Like Beckham." Written and Directed by Gurinder Chadra. 2002.
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