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A Fantastic Woman. Great movie! Great controversial topics! It is awesome to see the topic of Transgender woman in a relationship with an older man—two things that are unconventional, but when added together make it even more unacceptable in the public eye. Before I started the movie I watched the trailer. And I watched itContinue reading “May 5 Post”

I think it’s interesting the author writes that “as we women are a part of nature and the universe, we are called to care for and defend our Mother Earth” (328). I thought this was interesting because I thought yeah! Why are women being discriminated against when the community praises Pacha mama? But while thisContinue reading “April 28 Post”

For this week’s blog post I want to focus on Rosario Castellanos’ observations and comments on Mexican-style marriages. What I found that stood out the most to me was that it was very similar to Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique.  I was not surprised by this however. It makes sense that I would make this connection. Castellanos’ accountsContinue reading “April 21 Blog Post”

I thought these two articles were interesting. I always love reading about women standing together to fight injustice. It also is sad to read about these injustices committed by the government—any government. It infuriates me and breaks my heart at the same time. But what was inspiring was women coming together to fight a commonContinue reading “April 14th Blog Post”

I find it fascinating that the thing that universalized the character of the opposition to the Somoza was women’s extensive revolutionary activism or involvement. It’s funny how, in all the articles we read, people don’t think they need women or that women don’t belong in whatever it is their doing, but it always boils downContinue reading “April 7th Blog Post”

I thought Katherine Elaine Bliss’ article on prostitution and family ties was interesting to read. I was saddened to read that most women found their way to sex work through domestic servant positions that their families placed them in because they thought those families would care for their young daughters. Unfortunately, reoccurring sexual abuse fromContinue reading “Week 7 Blog Post”

I found the Lara Putnam article interesting. The stories varied from country to country, place to place, but they were always the same story in the end. Women never got their fair share or were jipped, slighted of matters concerning their own property. As was the case of Hermance Fontine in Costa Rica. I likedContinue reading “Week 6 Blog Post”

I thought it was interesting to read that the first female writers were limited to “expressing their opinions on the ‘woman question’ and in exclusively feminine journals (Chambers 229). I was just watching the Oscars and I cannot remember who, but one woman introducing an award made a joke about the winner gets yada yada andContinue reading “Week 5 Blog Post”

Week 4 Blog Post: I am amazed that people, especially men, back in colonial times actually believed women when it was their word against men. I also am amazed that priests advised women to sue their husbands. Everything I have learned about the feminist movement in the US points to women cannot be trusted norContinue reading “Week 4: Blog Post”

“Rape was widely used as a weapon” (The Guardian). This statement is too true all over the world. I don’t think rape could be described as anything other than a weapon. Often times rape is a result of racism as we see in the case of the Guatemalan women who were forced into sex slavery,Continue reading “Week 3: Gender Violence & Research on Women/Gender/Sexuality”