I believe that her style gives instant connection to a viewer, and also draws the viewer deeper to the paintings. In Frida’s paintings you can see and feel the pain and struggles, the happy and sad, and everything she went through in her life. I believe that Frida's inclination towards communism allowed her to do a great job expressing her ideas through her art. Being a Mexican female, Frida did an amazing job expressing the life she lived and felt through her art work. Frida was a great artist and her paintings will live forever and will forever impact the eyes of her art viewers all over the
“The Myth of the Latin Woman,” Judith Ortiz Cofer talks about her life in America as a Puerto Rican. She talks about how people stereotyped not only her but all Puerto Rican women. How American culture was different from Hispanic culture, and about how she wanted to fit in, but
Chicana feminism much like other forms of feminism is centered on the idea of equality for every person regardless of how different they might be from the dominate norm of a given society. Chicanas are women that are of Mexican descent who are born or raised in the United States. Chicana feminists focus on equality, but they also face uniquely Chicana problems. Some of these challenges include the identity crisis experienced because of the conflicts between tradition and reality, the clash of American culture and Mexican culture, and the view of sexually by the Mexican culture. Cherrie Moraga is an internationally recognized activist for Chicana feminism.
One such confrontation was the thirty-six-year civil war waged from 1960 to 1996 in the small Central American country of Guatemala. The many parties involved in the war would state different reasons for it. A careful scrutiny of the issue, however, reveals that the causes of the Guatemalan Civil War were racism towards and oppression of the native Mayan citizens, disputes regarding the use and ownership of land, and a desire for economic and political power. Mayans have been oppressed and systematically eradicated since Spain conquered Guatemala in 1520 (“Guatemala: A Brief History”). Although cruelty by the Spaniards ceased with Guatemala’s liberation in 1821, new groups arose to continue the oppression.
I network women with each other, refer them to professor friends who can help them; connect them to graduate students and/or former students who are already pursuing careers” (pg 348). This shows how dedicated she is to her students and the ways that she is willing to make a difference for them. “Courage takes pure concentrations” (pg 349) Castellanos makes sure that her students know that she has been there too. Where they are now, scared and angry because many have told the, that they won’t amount to anything. Olivia Castellano in “Canto, Locura Y Poesia,” explains how growing up as a female and being a Mexican has been a challenge.
Essay #2 (Women Who Live Evil Lives by Martha Few and Autobiography of a Slave by Juan Francisco Manzano) In the book Women Who Live Evil Lives by Martha Few, Few makes the argument that despite the vast ethnic and gender discrimination that plagued Santiago de Guatemala during the time of the Spanish inquisition, women especially women of color were able to exercise more cultural authority then historians have previously acknowledged. Her analysis of the perspective of the “mujeres de mal vivir” or “the women who live evil lives” tells us the often overlooked story of women who to use Few’s words, “drew on ideas and practices of religion and the supernatural and reformulated them to assert their authority and power in the local community”(5). She goes on to say that “Women then used this authority and power to overtly challenge gender, racial and colonial hierarchies and intervene in conflicts and problems in daily life”(5). This new found perspective for examination allows us a better understanding of the hierarchical aspects of both the culture at large as well as the slave culture. Within both of the cultures, societal role was often determined by ethnicity as well as gender and Few points out that the perspective of historians has always been shaped by the assumption that this discrimination led to the utter oppression of those in marginalized groups.
Women such as Hrothgar’s wife Wealthow and Grendal’s mother played very crucial roles in Beowulf. Women emerge as peacekeepers, In fact, it specifically states, “Sometimes the queen herself appeared, peace-pledge between nations to hearten the young ones and hand out a torque to a warrior, then take her place.” Their appearance after killing Grendel, Grendel's mother, and after Beowulf was himself slain, wasn’t just coincidence, it was to further show the important peace-keeping role women played in their society. The mead hall in particular is where women had an interesting, almost ritualistic significance. The act of Wealthow serving the men mead is more than just graciousness because they are new visitors and are there to help her and her people. Her role as a woman was also to give recognition to the characters when they deserved it.
Imagine being depicted as an object to be won, not truly a human but merely a portrait of "when a mans achievements become a woman's good fortune". This is a modern woman's reality. In Jean Killbourne's movie Killing Us Softly 3, Jean explains how advertisements and the media try to depict "who we are, and who we should be". In this essay I will shed some light on the dominate message in these ads, what the consequences of these ads are, and my opinion on what Jean Killbourne has said. In Killing Us Softly 3 Jean Killbourne shows a collection of ads that portray women not only as the product with the label draped across her stomach, but as gold-digging, passive, vulnerable objects that never really means no when she say's it.
It helped because it gave me the impression that women 's history was more than just a fight to vote. I was very informative and the main resource for my portion of the project. Armento, Beverly J.; Nash, Gary B.; Salter, Christopher L.; and Wixson, Karen
On the practical level, then, the goals of feminist ethics are the following: first, to articulate moral critiques of actions and practices that perpetuate women’s subordination; second, to prescribe morally justifiable ways of resisting such actions and practices; and, third, to envision morally desirable alternatives that will promote women’s emancipation. On the theoretical level, the goal of feminist ethics is to develop philosophical accounts of the nature of morality and of the central moral concepts that treat women’s moral experience respectfully, though never uncritically. Just as feminist ethics may be identified by its explicit commitment to challenging perceived male bias in ethics, so approaches that do not express such a commitment may be characterized as nonfeminist. Nonfeminist approaches to ethics are not necessarily anti-feminist or male-biased; they may or may not be so. The Development of Contemporary Feminist Ethics The history of Western philosophy includes a number of isolated but indisputable instances of moral opposition to women’s subordination.