Real Women Have Curves Play Analysis

Ever since Carmen got to Latin America, her mother made a emphasis on living for the country as oppose to focusing on her own issues. This stunted the pre-pubescent development of Carmen, but the most psychological damage was that, this idea of socialism, confirmed to her that she could not show any weakness. A prime example of this would when Carmen and Ale had their near drowning experience, but did not tell their mother for that was considered showing weakness (insert quotation). Or what about the time she made out with her cousin and the only person she felt compelled to ask for help was her grandmothers maid, in p.74 while Carmen was making out with her cousin everyday she says this about the maid: “I longed to talk to her, to ask her for help in making sense of so much ecstasy and sorrow”. Carmen never felt comfortable talking about vulnerable feelings to her mother, even if the subject was as open as sexuality, in their household vulnerability was considered a weakness. The fact that Carmen wanted to talk to an anonymous maid, says how much shame or guilt she felt about talking these issues with one of her family members. Conversely, the act of taking responsibility for oneself or keeping secrets instilled a habit of independence in Carmen, but at what cost? Her mother showed her how to be independent, but never told about the consequences of deviating from the norms. In Bolivia Carmen was slut shammed for kissing boys and had her neighbors talk bad about her, while her mother never nurtured or told her how to deal with those

on women it respects the multidimensionality of people and the understanding of power – that is that one cannot be free if others are restricted. PCT put this in

When it comes to things like gender equality, and feminism people are going to have their own feelings and opinions about these certain subjects. It could bring strong, sympathetic, angry, or uninterested. Either way, it brings you some type of emotion to create pathos. She also uses words like “we” and “us” to involve herself with the audience to make feel what she’s feeling. One thing she states that “If we want to live as women, some separatism is forced upon us: Mills College is a wise embodiment of that separatism. The war-games world wasn’t made by us or for us; we can’t even breathe the air there without masks” (1).

For example, Pony and Johnny were inside the burning church carrying the kids to safety. While Dallas was outside waiting for them. Dally said, “For Pete’s sake, get outa there! The roofs gonna cave in any minute. Forget those blasted kids!”(93). This describes Dally’s selfish side because he did not even want to try to save the kids. Dallas went inside the burning church because Johnny was in danger. He would do anything for Johnny but only Johnny. He would have not risked his life for strangers like Ponyboy and Johnny did. Also a piece of evidence Dally shows his selfishness is when Johnny had just passed away in the hospital. Dally was really upset and did not care about anyone else besides himself. Pony explained how Dally took out his anger, “Dally had taken the car and I started the long walk all the way home in a stupor”(150). Dally left Ponyboy at the hospital, making him walk all the way home. Dally even knew that Pony was not feeling good and had injured his head.Yet Dallas just left him in the Dark to walk home alone. In addition, another reason Dallas is selfish is when Dally just got shot for carrying his gun: “Dallas winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted”(154). Dally is selfish because he did not care about how anyone else felt after Johnny's death. Dally was being selfish by killing himself. That shows his selfishness because he was not there for his friends. He

Women often appear with glamorous image on advertisements, movies. However, there are also a lot of pictures to make women soured and routine such as women in the party, velvet erotic games, etc. By taking advantage of beautiful pictures, sexy women in the media seems to make the value of women become simply. People have acknowledging that women typically only have to dep, sexy, attractive, and space for recreation. Indeed, they hardly enhance the value of women. I am really shocked to find that most of social media is making people less interested in the intelligence, curved bar, and a lot of good things that women had not simply outward beauty. The media just give people that the public wants to. The film really makes the viewer think about the true value of women in the media and society. In addition, the film effectively appeals to the audience’s emotions and empathy. Throughout the film, the writer mentions her unborn daughter and her fear of whether her daughter “could grow up to be emotionally healthy and fulfilled given our moder culture.” She mentions that becoming pregnant and discovering her child was a girl is the reason she started looking to make a change in the way society and media sees women. This is an appeal to anyone who has a daughter or wants to have a daughter. They hope that people will want to make changes, just like the narrator did, for the future of the

Selfishness is a disease of the soul that every person experiences several times throughout their life. To say that selfishness has never been experienced would be hypocrisy. To say that selfishness is a beneficial trait would be erroneous. Although as humans we lie to ourselves, there is no question that selfishness can make any person a fool. Being selfish consumes us and changes us into someone we are not. Whether it leads to getting people killed, losing love, or abolishing families, selfishness always leads to destruction.

The film is centered on a group known as the Women’s Army. It is a group comprised of women who seek to eradicate the ever-present inequalities between males and females. They end up going on marches, networking with different radio shows and meeting together in order to find ways to educate women and the general public about the hypocritical nature of the government and its role in the social and economic status of women. In the beginning of the film we see men catcalling women as they walk down the street, harassing them while riding the subways, and even attempting to rape them in broad daylight. This highlights the impact of societies ideology about gender

Movie shows the betrayal or unfavorable depiction of the sisterhood, an important concept in feminist ideology, emphasizing that women are bound in a communal oneness. The movie

She explains Marx’s argument that capital penetrates and transforms every aspect of life (Brown, 2003, p. 19). Capital remakes everything in its image and reduces every value and activity to its cold rationale (Brown, 2003, p. 19). Essentially all is subject to the relentless submission of the state and the individual, the church and the university, morality, sex, marriage, and leisure practices to this rationale (Brown, 2003, p. 19). Thus liberal democracy especially for women has been compromised and undermined. Within the film, several women who were interviewed mentioned about the rise of union activism. Once you were unionized you were guaranteed benefits and more pay. However to ensure this cold rationale of capital as Marx stated, governmentality was achieved as one African American women, Margaret Wright, described she had gotten increased work hours making it harder for her and many other women to participate in union meetings. In the government’s eyes, unionism was equated with freedom and therefore seen as unpatriotic.

There were three major “waves” of feminist action that took place in the 1900’s. The most recent and most closely resembling the film is the “third wave” taking place in the early 1990’s. The “third wave” feminist mainly focused on micro politics but also sought after negotiating a space within feminist thought for deliberation of race-related subjectivities. In the film, a woman was brutally beaten by a man for laughing at his small penis. The girl’s friends found out what happened and sought to acquire revenge on the two men that committed this hurtful crime. The gang of vengeful women manage to scavenge one thousand dollars of their own savings as a reward for anyone who kills the two men. The gang of women acts as the feminist movement in the 1990’s but there is

In the film Real Women Have Curves, Ana Garcia strives to live an ordinary teenager’s life, although she’s not able to do so because of the Mexican tradition her family abides by everyday. Ana’s Mother, Carmen Garcia, continuously pesters Ana about her weight and the way she carries herself by not fitting into society’s commands of how a female should convey themselves. Along with her weight, her dream to go off to college is quickly crushed by her unsupportive family who demand she grows up to be a housewife and raise children. Unlike most women, Ana doesn’t let society define the way she should live her life. By doing so, she reveals the female gaze multiple times throughout the film.

Throughout the story we see the protagonist struggle with the gender roles placed upon her by her society; specifically the role she is supposed to play as

Traditional gender roles as the first theme I will exploring. In the movie there are a

This theory is used to critically analyze relationship between language, ideologies, and society to reveal the portrayal of women in the film.

All in all, female identity is a widely concentrated topic in the film with the three women depicted as making efforts to identify themselves in a male-dominated society. Lucy, Karen, and Elizabeth all struggle with their development as women, especially through relationships, family roles, and children. Women in the film search for identity by trying to differ from other, looking for children, engaging in unhealthy relationships, and smoking without thinking about consequences of their actions. Therefore, Josselson’s theory provides a perspective for the story as it applies to the real life situations.