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The reason why women are scarcely mentioned throughout the history textbooks are because women are conformed in their status of the private sphere. Women are related to “nature” considering their roles in society such as child bearers and housewives. Culture is considered as a sustaining force that transcends nature to create and control a new interest. Because of this “nature” status put on women, they are considered inferior to men. However, this is not the case for everyone and not all society understands culture and nature like westerners do. Some consider what women and men do rather than the symbolic attributes that are placed on them.
Jean Makdisi, author of “Teta, Mother, and I,” writes about her grandmother in order to erase the notion that women were scarcely mentioned in history. It is the power of knowledge that made Jean Makdisi wonder about women’s culture.
Authors, Isabelle Allende, Ama Ata Aido, and Jean Makdishi all hold the theme of knowledge in their articles. Makdishi realized that in order to write about Teta, her mother, and herself, she needed the history of Teta’s home country. “Two Words” by Allende talks about Belisa Crepusculario who made a living by selling words. The knowledge of words led her to help El Mulato and Colonel to create the perfect speech to touch the minds of men and women. Once she made the speech, she left the Colonel with two words that made him unwell for thinking about it over and over. The cultural belief that women are inferior to men is refuted by the actions of Belisa. From her knowledge of words and writing, she stunned the Colonel. Belisa found out that “words make their way in the world without a master” (Allende 7). “Other Versions” by Aido talks about the main character,...

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...lity. When they cannot take care of the baby, the mothers usually leaves the baby alone for it to pass away. It is because of the society and the lack of economic support that these mothers leave their babies. This is very common in Brazil which all became a tradition rooted by feudalism, exploitation, as well as institutionalized dependency (Hughes). In today’s society, women can be both cultural and natural contributors. Women have enough power to change the history and be written to be told to future generations.
History in textbooks does not contains plephora amounts of information of women figures. The culure that women are in makes them oppressed and not able to stand up for their rights. Women are natural and cultural producers just like men. As natural producers, women take care of their children but as cultural producers, women work in the public sphere.

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