8.) in which two decades did the cowboys fail to
make it to the super bowl?
a. 1970s and 1980s
b. 1960s and 1970s
c. 1960s and 1980s
d. 1990s and 2000s

answer: #1 is (a) however

explanation:

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.

a, overstatement is the answer