Week 2

For this week's reading we looked at " Out of the House, the Halo, and the Whore's Mask: The Mirror of Malinchismo" which was written by Alicia Alba de Gaspar. This weeks reading highlighted a lot of the inequalities women face. In particular it showed us the thing that often gets forgotten on top of what women face being gender. This weeks reading highlighted the problem of machismo and the role that gender plays as another form of oppression towards women. Looking at art by Chicanas you could often times see the presence of resistance against the societal gender roles and the overwhelming presence and dominance men had in art. The art of women was used to combat the same societal gender roles seen in the Chicano Movement.  Some of these roles that were seen placed on women by men through the Chicano movement of the women as caregivers, virgins, and were not highlighted as prominent pieces in the Chicano movement. Inclusiveness was a major problem that Chicana artist wanted to highlight. 

Demeaning women through a movement that was fighting for equality causes problems from the inside that are often disregarded because machismo can oftentimes be deeply rooted into our culture that it continues to affect our own communities. The question that I came up with has to be about the progress that is lost if we continue to put women down or forget to highlight the important impact that they have on progress in our communities as well as in various other movements.