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Lorena Garcia wrote “She is Old School Like That,” this piece is about sex talks between mothers and daughters in the Latin American community. She examines the way which these talks are given and at what point in the life of the daughters they are given. Garcia points to the different methodology the Latina mothers used when talking to their daughters, and their reactions when they found out their daughters were engaging in sexual activity. Garcia claims that there is a certain pattern in which the Latina mothers behave. These women are the operation with a new definition of sexuality influenced and shaped by the heteronormative and patriarchal society.
Around twenty people per minute are physically abused by a partner in the US, and around one in fifteen children are exposed to intimate violence per year. While these statistics may seem surprising, The House on Mango Street, a book full of many lessons and examples, provides great glimpses into the lives of those affected by abuse, especially in the main character Esperanza's friends Sally and Minerva. We see examples of childhood abuse with Sally and her father’s relationship, and later in the story Sally and her husband’s relationship. We see examples of domestic abuse in Minerva and her boyfriend’s relationship. The high occurrence of domestic and childhood abuse highlights the need for more awareness and protection regarding these issues.
I raised him… You’re my hija, she said, that’s what you’re supposed to be doing” (Diaz 56). It’s evident that the women in the Dominican culture are looked at as just housewives from a very young age. This reflects how gender roles are perpetuated in their society.
A male Cuban sympathizer (Doc 2) discusses his staunch anti-women’s liberation position explaining that women’s economic freedom has undermined traditional marital roles. Since he is being interviewed by a US anthropologist, he might feel free to express what would otherwise be an unpopular sentiment. Fernandez in her memoir (Doc 5) points out how she was expelled from medical school upon asking for maternity leave. She discusses the difficulties of living in Cuba with her infant daughter when she was short of necessary supplies. As an exile, it is not surprising that she is highly critical of her former country’s government.
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Without the traditional community they once would have had in Puerto Rico, there was no intervention to stop child abuse. As a teenage girl, Candy went against her father’s dominate role by running away. It was not uncommon for such instance to occur Puerto Rico. The family faced no shame by a runaway daughter as long as she allowed her lover to have complete control. Usually a girl would have the aid of her community to bring her to a new male-dominate household and away from her father’s abuse (2003: 219).
Following this assault, Esteban has no legal repercussions, developing how male violence towards women in Chilean society is acceptable. Not only does Esteban’s violence emphasize society’s view of women, it also emphasizes the struggle between the lower and upper class. Esteban verbally expresses what poor people “don’t realize is that [they] are completely ignorant and uneducated. Without me they’d be lost…every time I turn my back. Everything goes to pieces and they start acting like a bunch of donkeys” (Allende 65).
To better understand the cause of intimate violence will help to come up will help come up with a better solution on solving this problem. There are various theories that have come up to explain the main causes of domestic violence, some include; learned helplessness theory, Intergenerational Transmission Theory, Social–Psychological Model and the feminist theory. All of these theories have tried to illustrate the causes of domestic violence. In this paper, I will target my writing on the feminist theory where it emphasizes power and gender inequalities in relationships. The theory focuses on how societal messages that makes it alright for a male to use aggression and violence, and the gender roles that dictate how women and men should act in their relationships
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