Peruvian Women Support Groups

After earning a doctorate, Castro was hired by a small men’s college in rural Indiana to teach feminism theory and women 's literature to thirty-five men. She was prepared and ready for the disagreements, the drop outs and the failures that couldn’t open up their minds on feminism. But she values those voices, the questions and hostility because "they taught me how to make feminism 's insights relevant to people outside a closed, snug room of agreement" (Castro, 98). She had learned how to create feminism theory, critical race theory and observation about class privilege relevant, exciting and even needful to people who had no material reason to care. She learned diplomacy.

“La Feminista”, an article written by Anna Nieto Gomez in 1974, discusses the conflicts and struggles surrounding the Chicana identity and the Chicano movement. The feministas are consisted of a group of minority Latin women, the Chicanas, who are “Spanish-speaking, culturally different and non-Anglo group” (Anna Nieto Gomez 183). They suffered racial discrimination from not being white which was the only race superior to all others at that time. Worse still, they encountered sexism in a patriarchal society that gave power, authority and privileges to the male. The formation of the minority group the femenistas can be traced back to the Chicano movement that took place in 1970s. During the Chicano movement, Chicanos, who were racially oppressed

All they wanted was an answer to one question “Where were their children? Their sons and daughters were “missing” and all they were told was” We don’t have any answers! The citizens were afraid, even high authorities of religious groups turned a blind eye. In 1977, with Argentina under a violent military dictatorship, a group of mostly house wives living in a fear oppressed state made a stand and found their voice. They demanded to be heard and while the regime was enforcing their control and power over Argentinians political views through torture and disappearance; a mother’s devotion to her child and the political resistance transformed these mothers into a political force. They are the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who effectively mounted a civil rights movement that forced the top military officials to be charged for their crimes and have sustained an

At first, only woman became agents of change but soon after, business man started participating, including priests. They became a grassroots community activism by “attending many meetings, phone calling, and door-to-door communication” (Pardo 4). They all had one goal, to stop the building of the prison, and the building of the toxic incinerator which will mainly affect their communities health. As discussed by Pardo, we see how people have this stigma on low-income communities, specially woman, that they are not very politically involved, but this time they proved the stigma

Through multifarious ways, female gender roles in Latin American countries have gradually begun to improve over time. These slight improvements have manifested through women’s increasing involvement in politics and presence in the labor force due to immigration, globalization, and global media. Women in Latin American countries have become

Due to the mainstreaming of the reproductive rights movement, white women and their reproductive needs were constantly highlighted and addressed, while the women of color and the countless reproductive injustices that they faced were either overlooked or ignored. Therefore, had it not been for this book, many of us would still be under the impression that the overrepresentation of white middle class women as well as the emphasis on pro-choice was normal and the only necessary facts to know about the reproductive rights movement of the 20th century. Moreover, because of the emphasis placed on grassroots organizations and their significance, it can also be argued that another purpose for writing this book was to show the importance and necessity of grassroots organizations, as they played a major role in impacting public policy in relation to reproductive rights and justice for women of

is routine work, little glory, and low pay, men prove willing to admit women to equal share in the spoils office ”. Once they gained more political influence, women were eager “to continue the reforms of the Progressive era” . Called by the scholars as “maternalistic” approach, women sought to improve the conditions of poor women and children. They lobbied with a success for “education and industrial reform, wage and hour laws for working women, a wide range of child health problems on the state level, as well as a broad extension of women’s legal rights” .

Enlightenment can have various meanings but in the book Letters from a Peruvian Woman by Francoise De Gaffigny the definition of Enlightenment would be the attainment of spiritual knowledge or insight, which gives an individual a new perspective of another world/culture. In the book the main character Zilia is abducted from her Peruvian Empire where she has grown custom to their culture and lifestyle and taken to eighteenth century Europe. On her journey to Europe Zilia has many pleasant and frightful experiences as she records her adventure in a series of letters to her love Aza who remains in Peru. Unlike a frightened capture, Zilia is willing to learn the European ways and constantly compares the

In a patriarchal society such as colonial Latin America, women were considered second class citizens. No matter their class or ethnicity, all women experienced the social and cultural limitations that are subjected to them by this patriarchal society. Women had limited access to education, women are used to satisfy men’s personal desires and legal systems neglected women’s court rights while heavily advocating men’s. However, not all women are subjected to the same limitations because of the difference in one’s economic status and ethnic identity. Nonetheless, women still found a way to carve out a space for themselves in attempt to overcome these regulations set by a patriarchal society.

In the book the “Engaged Observer” Dana Ain-Davis defines institutional time as time lost by poor, disadvantaged people while they wait for the government and/or bureaucracies to meet their basic needs and human rights. The concept of institutional time is evident in Aida Hernandez Castillo’s field experience. He worked with the women of Chiapas who experienced political violence at the hands of their government. Even though former USA President Bill Clinton signed The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996, which was intended to aid and protect battered women unfortunately the Act later mandated women to work in order to receive or continue receiving benefits. As a result the women of Chiapas experienced not

The call for feminism marks the beginning of an extensive journey with the quest to inspire women and to advocate women right in a male governed the world. Gloria Anzaldúa and Maxine Kingston both scrutinize feminism in the framework of “Borderland: La Frontera: The New Mestiza” and “The Women Warrior” encouraging women to occupy a strong position in the post-colonial male led civilization. The author both traces the journey of women struggle to achieve rewarding role within the structure shaped by men. The alliance of different voice from disregarded women gestures a strong theme that inspires Maxine Hong Kingston and Gloria Anzaldua to write enthusiastically within the feminist topic to dispute the patriarchal society.

These workers left their homes with the hope of earning a higher income to provide a better life for themselves and their families. However, these workers soon found out the only things available for them were low wages, dangerous work conditions, environmental hazards, and no protection from their government. In the documentary all employees complained of severely low wages, but the most significant complaints were from the female Maquiladora workers and the residents who lived near the maquiladoras. The female workers complained of being verbally and physically abused by their male supervisors while the residents complained of companies dumping toxic waste into local living areas. The concerns addressed by these people are not limited to the confines of this documentary. Countless urban residents in Mexico fear for their environmental safety and women fear for their well-being.

In every country in Latin America and the Caribbean, women suffer acute discrimination. Often, the discrimination women face is related to social prejudices regarding appropriate patterns of conduct for men and women. This entrenched sex inequality provides the backdrop for the pervasive and widespread human rights violations women face in the region, with little chance of justice. The most pernicious types of women's human rights abuses in the Americas occur in the areas of women's reproductive and sexual health and rights, discrimination and violence against women in the workplace, and violence against women in the home. After decades of dictatorships in some countries, democracy has not meant an end to impunity for violations of women

Thesis: Gilmore argues that through community building and outreach, feminists in the 1970’s, particularly NOW members, were able to “create and sustain their identities (129)” individually as well as developed a “feminist consciousness (129)” as a community as a whole. She argues that “grassroots” movements on the local level using “rank-and-file” activists were more vital to the women’s movement than the “leaders” of the movement.

Ladies ' legislative issues in the 20th Century came to past self-characterized women 's activists, as conventional ladies associations handled issues of important to ladies ' regular lives. An examination of the positions and moves on welfare change made the researchers and feminist through Voters and the National Organization for Women in the middle of 1970s difficulties the suspicion that all white collar class women disregarded the issues of poor ladies and highlights a discriminating defining moment in American progressivism. The League 's activism uncovers the profundity and