Goodwin, Charmaine

Hello, my name is Charmaine Goodwin. I am a fourth year Gender studies major.

In, “Out of the House, the Halo, and the Whore’s Mask” I made relative connections to the Chicana movement and the feminist movement. The Chicana movement revolving around political and self awareness accompanies the symbol of La Virgen de Guadalupe but with feminist aesthetics. Why was it important for Chicana feminists to re-image La Virgen de Guadalupe? In conjunction, why was reclaiming the female body in art forms important? Barbara Carrasco’s work, Pregnant Woman in a ball of yarn embodies the Chicana movement strides to reclaim motherhood for oppressed pregnant women. Is reclaiming the female body still important in Chicana art works?

“There’s No Place like Aztlán” began with a great introduction with the comparison to the Wizard of Oz. Do racial politics add in to the Wizard of Oz comparison to Aztlán? Why is Aztlán a cultural myth rather than actual land? Would the importance of Aztlán change if it was land that could be found? How does the myth relate to colonization of native lands? Can connections be made between a lost sense of pre-colonial history between Chicanos/as and other history of people of color?