The Challenges of Women in Society Young women face many challenges in their lives and the book Audios, Barbie shows many of the trials and tribulations that any single young woman might encounter. Most of the stories deal with body image and personal identity, and I chose to focus on one particular story titled “Appraising God's Property,” by Keesa Schreane. In his essay he elaborates a backward situation of belonging to the "inside" crowd or the "outside" crowd. To highlight an issue in this area I also found an article to contrast and compare Keesa's essay, written by Fiona Stewart, of Deakin University, regarding the 'Implications of reputation for young women's sexual health and wellbeing' (pg .373 )". In the essay that Keesa writes, she reflects and elaborates on self-confidence. It contains her struggle to stay strong within herself and face the coldness (or better yet the non-coldness) of the lifestyle she has chosen, abstinence. She grew up with old-fashioned morals and values. These are important to her, but they contradict all the "action" that takes place in most young women's high school and college years get a little 'groove'" on her own (p. 159). She found that she had to work hard to keep temptation in the background. Keesa viewed sexuality "as pure evil" whether she thought it herself or showed it in her movements of her body, or that she saw the look of desire in the males who were looking for her (pages 159-60). He was an individual, out of the ordinary. She found herself very involved in traveling to places and teaching others what abstinence was and how important it was to support it. She felt that “if I wanted to be a virgin, at least I could be enlightened (p. 160).” This, and her strong will, gave her an advantage over the normal pressures that young women, like her, faced. Knowing that "in a land where booty calls were 'in' and waiting until the third date to hold hands was 'out'" ... and she was "definitely out (p.161)" placed Keesa beyond above the rest of his peers. He felt he was “the last lone soldier (p.161),” and for good reason he probably was. Keesa was overcoming what most women experience.