Analysis Of Metales Y Derivados By Lourdes

Common stereotypes about women in the Mexican-American culture include that women are uneducated, good housewives, and very fertile. Many parents still believe it’s the woman’s job to stay home and be the homemaker. The concept of gender, which is socially constructed, is reinforced since birth. (Sociology Lecture 08/24/2015) Ana was caught in the middle of gender politics. Her mother oppressed her daughter so she can become a grandmother. The film “Real Women Have Curves” deals with gender stereotypes and struggles of poor women living in East LA. Carmen was trying to have Ana chained to the notion of women being inferior to men. Carmen believed men to be superior, whereas Ana thought differently. However Ana strived to liberate herself from traditional cultural norms by pursuing her college education. Her mother’s negative influence only caused Ana to rebel.

many of the women see themselves as objects of labor. For example in the documentary

Women cannot have rights, women are objects. In the midst of the Trujillo Era, women in the States were fighting to be more than a man’s play thing. More than a man’s sex doll. In the recently published novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, author Junot Diaz over objectifies women in an era where women are fighting for equal rights just across the ocean. The novel is later set in a more modern time period where stereotypes can be broken. The relationship between mother and daughter serves as an example for the differing mindset two generations can have on a specific topic but also how similar they can be. Diaz’s novel breaks the mold for many of the typical stereotypes; the guapo Dominican male, the sexual women, the nerd. Through techniques like tone and diction, Diaz

The historical Chicano women’s strike of Tex-Son in San Antonio, Texas, began in 1959. Tex-Son was a company that specialized in the production of children’s clothing. Tex-Son employed women and immigrants for cheap labor. The working conditions at Tex-Son were not up to par – filthy ventilation systems and unsanitary work areas made labor dangerous. Wages differed between women and men; women were paid by the piece, while men were paid by the hour – this made labor even more risky since the women tried to rush. Tex-Son - aware of the influx of immigrants from Mexico, and taking into consideration the stigma attached to women in the work force - knew that they could employ the women and non-citizens for cheap labor. Tex-Son also had plants throughout the country, and could send work to other cities, where labor was even cheaper. The women were employed by Tex-Son, and were members of union ILGWU. They knew something had to change, and so began the “unladylike” strike. At the start of the strike, the women garment workers established a negative reputation for their selves. Initially protesting violently, the strikers against Tex-Son successfully transformed their image by reverting their struggle’s focus to the theme of motherhood; in addition, they improved their image by befriending the Anglo women, male unionists, and the Catholic Church.

An assumption that the authors make towards their audience is that cared about wealth and presentation. Overall, calling the audience highly judgemental. The living styles for “tortilleras” were very different from La China. The poor inhabitants of Mexico city lived in houses, divided into many rooms and shared with many people. The most impoverished lived on the floor, which I'm sure you could imagine was extremely uncomfortable. The woman would walk around barefoot covered in poor ugly clothing, they were not well kept whatsoever. They all slept together side by side on the floor along with their families. Their earnings were low and their lives very much depended on their workload. These were the real woman who held down Mexico. These were the real representations of women in latin America. Hard working woman who had to sacrifice for the well-being of themselves as well as their families.

During the Mexican Revolution, Mexico as a nation torn in many directions, people gave up simple farming lives to take up arms against causes that many of them did not fully understand. Gender roles during the period in Mexico were exceptionally degrading towards women. Having little more rights than slaves and treated as trophies or property more than human beings, women role in society was nothing near that of a man’s. In The Underdogs, Mariano Anzuela highlights the issue of gender roles by continuously illustrating the punitive role of women and their mistreatment. Augmenting Anzuelas work with citations from Oscar Lewis and Stephanie Smith will paint a picture of the degrading gender roles for women during the Mexican Revolution. Highlighted points brought up by Azuela are how men speak with and treat women, women’s place in society, and general disregard for women’s feelings.

Many feminists today express their feeling in that La Malinche (Dona Maria) is the reason why Mexican men disrespect Mexican women, this expressed in Mexico’s high domestic violence and infidelity rates. Her brutality was demonstrated in various ways and carries on today. For one, she was far more than a ventriloquist for Cortes, her she inflected his emotions with either friendship or anger. She led

The story illustrates the overlapping influences of women’s status and roles in Mexican culture, and the social institutions of family, religion, economics, education, and politics. In addition, issues of physical and mental/emotional health, social deviance and crime, and social and personal identity are

Juanita says, 'I feel my isolation alone in a big house full of people" (Romero, p. 22). The social norms and values surrounding the domestic service was a possible cause of Juanita's loneliness. These problems that Romero mentions are not confined to just Juanita. It applies to all the invisible workers working in the domestic service. At last Romero highlights that the class of domestic workers comprises mostly of women. Romero talks about her own experience working as a domestic worker, how she learned these domestic services through her mom. On weekend Romero would go clean houses along with her mother. Invisible workers are not found among all socioeconomic aspects. They are concentrated among the lower social

To her horror, Cecilia turns up hideously murdered in the desert, with the baby disemboweled just a few days short of giving birth, a victim of the epidemic of homicides of young women from southern Mexico emigrating to the north for better work. In need of a way to support themselves and their families, many of the Mexican women work in maquiladoras or factories and are paid meager wages, are exposed to the dangers of traveling from work to the dilapidated colonies where many of them live, and are denied governmental protection. Since women at the maquiladora are dispensable, they have a low use value because they can be replaced

The video states that females are treated as objects when they are in the America’s fields of the agricultural industry. Specifically, many women had to pay great price in order to keep their jobs and give a better life to their children. Many female workers were abused in their working areas by their supervisors and foremen. Most of the abused females were afraid to speak out or report the harassments that occurred during their working hours, not only because of their immigration status, but because of fear of not being trusted. After females reported the incidents, many of the supervisors denied having done the activities reported by the workers. The case of Juan Marin is illustrative. Marin was the supervisor who abused Angela Mendoza’s daughter. After he faced the accusations, he said he did not know any of the women who were accusing

Machismo is something seen in the domestic situations throughout Hispanic people. The violence, the subservience that is expected and the men believe the women are second and are second class citizens. There role is to be domestic housekeepers and to birth children. Alicia makes

This story is based on true events during the strike against the Empire Zinc Mine. It deals with the discrimination of the Mexican-American workers who wanted better working conditions. The film shows some early feminist theory, because the wives goes against the husbands wishes and has a role in the strike. It is one of the best political screenplay ever made because it combines the Old Left labor movement of the 1930s and the Women's Liberation politics in the late '60s. The anti-communist establishment saw this story as a provocation by because of its explicitly political statements and for strongly being in favor of unions. This story links the oppression of not only the workers, but the oppression of the wives making this film not only

As a woman working in a world controlled by men she is frequently discriminated against. She longs for a new life. One the allows her to show off her true abilities. However, during this time women were not superior. Men were in charge of the “real” jobs, and the women had to stay inside. Towards the end she understands the true effects this discrimination has on her, writing, “File me under W becuase I once was a women.” The discrimination Jorge faces is similar to those of the secretary’s. He is discriminated for his ethnic background. Jorge often feels that the jobs he acquires are those made for his race, writing, “I must be from the country of janitors.” While working for the church Jorge faces many stereotypes, such as “ [The] fiesta of the bathroom.” These actions ultimately lead Jorge’s decision to leave his

As a woman, Angela Vicario is the epitome of a traditional Colombian woman. A traditional Colombian woman is expected to be virgins when they get married; but Vicario defys this social custom causing Vicario to get “softly pushed his wife into [her house] without speaking,” (46). These details emphasize the idea that women are given different standards than men. The details help highlight Marquez’s criticism of how the traditional Colombian woman is treated as and thought of as. From a very young age Vicario and her sisters were taught “how to do screen embroidery, sew by machine, weave bone lace, wash and iron, make artificial flowers and fancy candy, and write engagement announcements,” (31). These skills were taught to better prepare the girls for marriage; displaying the difference in gender roles. Marquez uses parallel structure to emphasize the amount of skills one has to learn before they can be considered as good and pure. Many years after Bayardo San Román returns Vicario she still does “machine embroidery with her friends just as before she had made cloth tulips and paper birds, but when her mother went to bed she would stay in her room until dawn writing letters with no future,” (93). The diction of the words “no future” and “still” suggest that Vicario’s life is stuck in