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Throughout the book “Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian mines,” Domitila Barrios De Chungara exemplifies the hardships of the people in Bolivia by uncovering the exploitation of the masses, especially the women. In the time period that the Housewives’ committee was created, the idea of feminism was not commonly embraced by the majority of Bolivians, Making it a courageous move for the women to fight for equality. Being an extremely influential woman, Domitila used her voice to fight the people in power with her pro-Marxist views, protesting to let the poor be heard. As a feminist, she worked to change the social class of the Bolivians, which led her to undoubtedly face difficulties. Illustrated on Page 35, Domitila expresses rage for the working conditions the masses had, …show more content…

Religion, specifically Jehovah’s Witnesses, is used as a technique for demonstrating ideologies that support the elite, discrediting the arguments people such as Domitila make that are centered around equality for the poor by changing their living conditions. Domitila argued with the Jehovah Witness members by giving an example of a woman who has to fight for her kids just to be able to feed them. On page 63, she decides to continue to advocate the women who are struggling to survive over the fact that she is viewed to be sinning. She also mentions Catholicism as another religion that is intolerant towards her ideologies. Both Jehovah’s Witness and Catholicism are practiced largely by the elite and is used as a tool to discredit what Domitila is saying, which in her case is trying to give a voice to the poor Bolivians and validate the work of the women in the

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