Deep Down Dark In the book Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar he gives you the idea that Chile is a male dominated country. I could not agree more with him on this subject. Throughout the book Tobar suggests things such as women were not allowed in the work place, and that women were a bad omen down in the mine shafts. As you can see women were not allowed to do much. They didn’t work at all because their job was to stay home raise the children, keep the house clean, and make sure dinner is on the table when the husband got home. Even at Camp Esperanza you could see what the women’s role was. Throughout the novel you can see that Tobar was serious when he hinted that women were not allowed in the work place. Men were the bread winners in Chile and that is how they wanted to keep it. In Chile men see women as the one who stays home and raises the children. One example of seeing this in the novel is after the mine has collapsed, but no one knows about it yet Monica Avalos, Florence Avalos a miner trapped in the mine’s wife, is preparing dinner for her family and sewing her son’s sweater. As you can see she is doing the chores of the house. Monica is taking care of her son and making sure that diner is on the table when Florence gets home from work. …show more content…
In the novel Tobar also says that the miners of Chile believed it was bad luck for a women to be in the mine shaft.
There was no real reason behind this except that it was a superstition. From this superstition you can see that men almost looked down on women. Chile did have a female president sometime after the mining accident, but it was unheard of for a female to have any power. The only women that had some type of actually job was Maria Segovia, which was the sister of Mario Segovia, she sold items off of a cart in the street. Once this mining accident occurred they established Camp Esperanza, and Maria Segovia was known as the mayor of the
camp. Once Camp Esperanza was created you could truly see what the women’s role was. They kept their families together, and made diners. They were in charge of keep the so called “house” together at the camp. Soon after the camp was made the government put in a school house for the children so they could still get an education, and they put in a dining area as well. While the women waited to hear from their husbands, boyfriend, brothers, and sons they continued to take of their children. The women made sure everyone was fed my preparing every meal as they always did even through the rough times. They also managed to make sure their children were taken care of throughout the sixty-nine days of the men being trapped. Maria Segovia was named mayor of the camp because she was the one who would talk to the officials. She got answers for all the families that lived at the camp for the entire time their loved ones were trapped. Maria made sure that the camp ran smoothly and nothing fell apart because if it did it would make times even tougher one everyone else. Without the Mayor of Camp Esperanza would not have made it through what it did. As you can see throughout the sixty-nine days of the men being trapped the women of the families stepped up to do what they needed to do. While the men were trapped they realized that the women were almost stronger then the men. The women held their families together throughout the toughest times of their life. They did not need the men to depend on for support because in reality the men depended on the women for this time in need. All thirty-three men realized without their women they would not have made it through the pain of being trapped in a mine and coming out to their women was the one thing they needed. Even after the men came out the women had to be even stronger because most of the men went in as one person and came out as another. After this mining accident the men saw women differently, and now I believe Chile is more of an equality country.
In the article Skin Deep written by Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin, they discuss and look deeper into the diverse differences in skin color. Our skin color has developed over the years to be dark enough to prevent the damaging sunlight that has been harming our skin and the nutrient folate that it carries. At the same time out skin is light enough to receive vitamin D.
The relationship between the working class and Allende is definitely a difficult to understand because it's hard to understand how a political party is supported by the same group who contributes to their downfall. The working class was not the only reason Allende lost power, but was a heavy contributor. The working class seemed to only use Allende as a reason to enforce reform, and Allende used the working class as a group of supporters. The two groups could only agree on the fact that Chile needed serious social change, and Allende was the best shot they had.
The first turning point in hope for the Chilean road to socialism was that of the election of Salvador Allende as president, which gave many Yarur workers the belief that a ‘workers government’ was on their side. “For the first time, a self-proclaimed ‘workers government’ ruled Chile, dominated by the Left and pledged to socialist revolution” (Winn, 53). Allende’s role as president gave identity to the Yarur workers that they were being represented and because of this, their struggles of working in the factory conditions set by Amador Yarur would come to an end. This identification with Allende as being represented by their own voice became the first stepping-stone to the demand for socialization of the factory. “The election of a ‘Popular Government’ was a signal for them to take the revolution into their own hands and fulfill their historic aspirations through direct action from below” (Winn, 140)....
Muñoz, Carolina. The Tortilla Behemoth: Sexualized Depotism and Women's Resistance in a Transnational Mexican Tortilla Factory. Ithaca: ILR Press, 2004.
As Randall explained of her experiences in Cuba, 'the Cuban Revolution proclaimed women’s equality and seemed to have made enormous strides in its direction. The Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) had been established at the beginning of the revolution in order to organize women around the new social goals and make their needs known to Party leadership. It quickly became a mass organization with a membership of ninety seven percent of all women over the age of fourteen. It mobilized women very effectively to an array of necessary tasks' (Lewis 1977).
Their primary mission was to establish equality amongst men and to gain more rights. Contrary to popular belief, many famous rebellion leaders such as Pancho Villa were not supportive of women’s integration into the bandit forces (Fernandez 55). Within his book The Underdogs, Mariano Azuela distorts the image of women with the hopes of dissuading them from straying away from their traditional pre-Revolution roles within Mexican culture. During the Mexican Revolution, women typically chose to either fight in the conflicts to advance their rights or to take a submissive role and accept status quo.
Aztec women embarked on several defining moments of labor, gender, class, symbolism, and political power in the Aztec Mexico history and culture. The roles of the Aztec women were unjustly marginalized. Their contributions to the work activities, economy, government and the influence of growth and development were grossly deceptive in the Ethnohistoric documents. Moreover, the variations of Aztec women cooking and weaving revolutionized gender.
Throughout her novel there are numerous examples of gender roles that oppress both men and women. I will focus though on the inability to break free from gender roles and social customs. Anzaldúa describes the relationship between individuality and community when she writes, “Much of what the culture condemns focuses on kinship relationships. The welfare of the family, the community, and the tribe is more important than the welfare of the individual” (Anzaldúa 40). Social customs are deeply ingrained in Chicano society because of the emphasis on the community over individuality. You are a member rather than an individual in society. This puts the emphasis on how one acts, behaves, and belongs in the society rather than one’s personal purpose. Social constructs only exist because there is a community that upholds them. This flavor of society guarantee you support so long as you conform to the social customs. Consequently, it becomes very difficult to fight against social constructs like gender roles, let alone not personally conforming to
Gender representation in a movie is quite often consistent to it being phallic centric. This is where Pedro Almodovar differs from the standard. The director presents to us a variation of characters who sway away from the standard gender roles and characteristics often presented to the audience. The men that are present in the movie do have have a significant handle on the plot of story, and are (in context of this movie) often dependent on the womyn in the movie. For example Lola, the absent father, is not present both figuratively and literally in the movie to make a difference, and through his death becomes an object of pity to Manuela. Another example would be Rosa’s father, who is suffering from Alzeimeher’s disease and is completely dependent on Rosa’s mother, who in the movie seems to lacks empathy for him, seemingly making Rosa’s father another object of sympathy to the womyn in the movie.
My readings suggest the Hispanic culture gender roles are very common and strict. Starting early in life children are taught to follow the strict guidelines of their gender (American Home Resources, 2010). There exists three common gender specific scripts in Hispanic culture; females can either be “Marianismo” or “Hembrismo”, and, males are classified as “Machismo”. The two female roles differ greatly; “Marianismo” defines behaviors of women as being obedient, dependent and caring for their children. The “Hembrismo” role stresses a female’s strength to persist through life’s difficulties; however, this role is not accepted widely in their culture. The “Machismo” role describes behaviors of men as being dominant and independent. This role views the man as being in charge of the family. (Peñalosa,
When drastic changes are needed to be done for equal opportunities and a better chance for the future a revolt is bound to happen. So with the Mexican revolution going on and men off to fight, the women faced many personal and governmental issues at home. Eventually being mobilized through political destruction, women were able to change the roles they were perceived, restrictions amongst them lessened, and Hermila Galindo became a huge factor with it all as she had political connections. In the end, the women of Mexico were bounded successfully in which they change how they were look upon among men and the rest of Latin America.
Colonialism escalated patriarchal oppression often because men, ostracized from the social circle, wanted to exhibit their strong male power; however, the only socially acceptable place to exhibit their power was in the home (Loomba 142). Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits investigates the connection between feminism and magical realism explained in Loomba’s “Colonialism/Postcolonialism” by representing women as having powerful traits of revolution that are appropriated by machistas who feel threatened and undermine the powerful qualities that these women have. This connection is furthermore explored through political changes in Chile that affect the home
Paul Bogard in Let There Be Dark ,uses such a variety and wide range of ways to get the audience attention and different techniques and ways to try and persuade them . Paul's argument s is basically built on his appeal to broad spectrum of benefits issued or offered by natural darkness. Including them pertaining to the economy, environment and health . Promoting different types of outside to relate and connect back to his claim .
In Latin America, women are treated differently from men and children. They do lots of work for unexplainable reasons. Others for religious reasons and family orders and others because of the men involved. Women are like objects to men and have to obey their orders to either be rich or to live. Some have sex to get the men’s approval, others marry a rich man that they don’t even know very well, and become slaves. An important book called Chronicles of a Death Foretold is an example of how these women are treated. Purisima del Carmen, Angela Vicario's mother, has raised Angela and her sisters to be good wives. The girls do not marry until late in life, rarely socializing beyond the outsides of their own home. They spend their time sewing, weaving, washing and ironing. Other occupations include arranging flowers, cleaning up the house, and writing engagement letters to other men. They also keep the old traditions alive, such as helping the sick, comforting the dying, and covering the dead. While their mother believes they are perfect, men view them as too tied to their women's traditions. The men are afraid that the women would pay more attention to their job more than the men. Throughout the book, the women receive the respect they deserve from the men and others around them.
The novel Upside Down, by Eduardo Galeano depicts the injustices and unfairness of several branches of the global society. The differences between the colonized and the colonizer as Galeano writes is always growing and so is the gap between rich and poor. The author challenges western and eurocentric minds as to why on average, countries in the northern hemisphere have a higher standard of living than countries in the southern hemisphere. At first as a reader I thought the writer was whining about the unfairness of the world, but it is the social opiates such as the false idea of capitalism and choice that keeps us in check in this so called democracy. The author forces the reader to open their hearts to a concept that today's capitalist, power hungry society has almost forgotten