Escobar,Vanessa

Hi, my name is Vanessa Escobar. I am a third year Sociology major. 

In Out of the House, the Halo, and the Whore’s Mask, Chicana artists faced struggles of dealing with the dominance of Chicanismo. Chicana’s were underrepresented as artists by Chicano artists and their artwork in art exhibitions. Chicana’s were portrayed as submissive and seen as an object of procreation to maintain the ideology of “la familia”. My question for this part of the essay is, how difficult was it to display Esther Hernandez and Yolanda Lopez unique art of the Virgin Mary, who depicts a different view of religious beliefs than those that see La Virgen De Guadalupe as a form of respect and therefore, changing her image, could have been seen as disrespectful? Changing her image might have been a challenge, but also, it is important for individuals to have a different view outside religious beliefs.  

In There’s no Place like Aztlan: Embodied Aesthetics in Chicana Art, Aztlan is seen as the homeland of Chicanos/as, yet dominated by Chicanos that have the notion that Aztlan in a “motherland” in where women are seen as pure and virgins and males are seen as a process brotherhood that will serve as powerful tools to defeat the gabacho problem. This is a form of gender division in where the women is used as an object and not seen as capable to contribute to the Chicano Movement. Will the notion that women are objects to procreate and sexually satisfy their male partner ever change? The more individuals get educated through essays like these can change the mentality in how society expect women to behave, but also, there will be those individuals that will not change their beliefs and continue to practice gender inequality.