Unit 8 新视野大学英语第四册第八课

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    This unit deals with women problems from different aspects: how colored women feel, what the effects of wrinkles on women are and what is meant to women when becoming old. Passage A describes what it was like as a black woman to grow up in the American South. The author views her family’s past in slavery as giving her the world to gain and nothing to lose. Passage B at one level looks into skin creams used for beauty purposes but at a deeper level examines why women feel obliged to look young and wrinkle-free. It concludes that signs of ageing signify a reduction in a woman’s ability to reproduce — her primary value as seen by society. The third passage describes one woman’s experience of growing old and how society treats old women.