# Geena Davis and the importance of individual role-model narratives

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The piece analyses Geena Davis's award speech as a challenge to gender expectations and an example of role-model narratives used to represent social change.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 January 2006

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 17 January 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: gender, role-models, narrative, social-change.

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