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Just what was this problem that has no

name?...Sometimes a woman would say


I feel empty somehowincomplete.
Or she would say, I feel as if I dont
exist.
We can no longer ignore that voice
within women that says: I want
something more than my husband and
my children and my home.

~The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan

What do you think is the background of


the author?
What do you think The problem with no
name is?
Why would someone fell like this?
Minus the husband and kids, have you
felt something similar?

Who were they:


Middle class women
Suburbs
Stay at home

Life revolved around

home, husband, and


family

What did they want:


Fulfillment
Own identity

Who do you think


says this? Why?
What do they
want?

Comparing this
with the previous
quote, what
differences do
you notice?

Does a feeling of
superiority
require having
someone lower
than you?

Can you think of


some instances
of this?
Personally?

Do you feel better having


someone lower than you?
Whose neck shall I stand
on to make me feel
superior? And what will I
get out of it? I dont want
anything lower than I am.
Im low enough already. I
want to rise. And push
everything up with me as I
go.

Machismo

Marianismo

The unquestionable authority


requires the affirmation of his manhood
through promiscuity
whose honor depends on the purity of the
women of his household and not on his
own behavior
Physical Domain: De la Calle aka the
street

Emulate the Virgin Mary


Self-sacrificing mother
Pure until marriage
Obedient to the males of the household
Physical Domain: De la Casa aka the
home

During the Chicano Movement, women


began to notice how they were treated
differently from their male counterparts
Ideas from males were more likely to be

considered than those from women


Women were assigned duties that
emphasized gender roles, like cooking and
making coffee, while the men made the big
decisions

When Chicanas tried to address the


gender inequalities within the Chicano
movement they were dismissed
Feminist concerns diverted attention from

the real issues of racism and class


exploitation
It will fracture the Chicano movement from
within!!!

Many Chicanas thought twice about


voicing their demands
Chicanas who needed Identities were

Vendidas (Sellouts) or Falsas (Fakes)

Feminist

Sought the recognition of the worth and


potential of all women

Challenged gender roles at:


Home (Patriarchy)
School (Home Economics track)
Meetings (Clean-up)

Loyalist

Sought to hold the Movement together


for the needs of the community
Our enemy is the gavacho not the macho

Based on collective society ideals


Interdependent- we need each other
The needs of the many vs the needs of the few
Family First

Many Chicanas did not identify with


Second Wave Feminists
Added racial and economic layers
SWF was middle-class focused
Historically Chicanos have held the lowest

positions, and Chicanas even lower


Double Minorities

Low wages, low status jobs, large wage gaps


In 1969, Chicanas earned 1/3 that of their
white female counterparts

What do you think the


author feels this way?
Why?
What assumptions are
made by both groups?
What issues of idealism
does this poem bring up?

Our white sisters


radical friends
love to own pictures of us
sitting at a factory machine
wielding a machete
in our bright bandanas

And when our white sisters


radical friends see us
in the flesh
not as a picture they own,
they are not quite as sure
if they like us as much.
Were not as happy as we look
on
their
wall.

Called for:
Higher education
Chicanas had a 70% high school dropout rate
More education leads to greater economic
opportunities
Acknowledgment of the oppressive role of religion
Which promoted gender roles and the submission to a
patriarchal society

Compassionate equalitarian marriages


Child Care
To allow women to participate more in the movement

The only visual


representations of Aztec
women available to Chicanas
was the honorable, but dead
Princess or the traitorous
Mexican Eve(La Malinche)

Given the importance of


Aztlan and Aztec roots to
the Chicano Movement, it
was also vital to have an
Aztec Female Icon to
identify with.

Chicana scholars provided


new perspective (1977) to
the figure of Malintzin:
She was a gifted young

slave translator who


lived in the margins of
society and made
chooses based on the
borders of her world.

What would you do in her


position?

The female soldadera from the


Mexican Revolution was also
debated on. Some saw her as
loyally standing by her man, while
others saw her as a soldier in her
own right.

Write a paragraph telling me where you


would fall under.

What would you put first: personal liberation


or family first? Why?

What are the pros and cons?

Can there be a happy median? What will


this entail?

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