Country music pioneer kitty wells dies at 92
Kitty Wells, the “Queen of Country Music” who broke down barriers in the 1950s to women in the genre, died Monday at her home in Nashville, Tennessee, a source close to the family said. She was 92.
“She died in the loving arms of her family,” said Jay McDonald, an associate at Junction Recording Studio, owned by Wells’ grandson, said by telephone, citing “complications from a stroke” as the cause of death.
Wells, born Ellen Muriel Deason, became the first female country artist with a number-one hit when she recorded It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels in 1952, when she was 33 and country music was entirely dominated by men.
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‘Girls as young as 6 want to look sexy’
Washington: Girls as young as six years are already beginning to think of themselves as sex objects, a new study of elementary school-age children in the US has found.
It has been found in the past that women and teens think of themselves in sexually objectified terms, but the new study published in the journal Sex Roles is the first to identify self-sexualisation in young girls.
In the study, psychologists at Knox College in Illionis, used paper dolls to assess self-sexualisation in six- to nine-year-old girls. Sixty girls were shown two dolls, one dressed in tight and revealing “sexy” clothes and the other wearing a trendy but covered-up outfit. Using a different set of dolls for each question, the team asked each girl to choose the doll that: looked like herself, looked how she wanted to look like, was the popular girl in school, she wanted to play with. — PTI
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