gender roles

Week 4: Food and Drink

In her story “Cooking Lesson”, Rosario Castellanos expertly outlines the woes of women and their place in society. She combines two stories to highlight the sacrifices that she has had to take because of the gender roles that tie her down. During the story, the woman/narrator explains her resentment towards being a housewife all whileContinue reading “Week 4: Food and Drink”

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Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republic

I believe I would have had a very hard time living in a world where women were as Josefi na Pelliza de Sagasta described it. One where “Entirely free women, with as much independence as men, would lose their greatest charms and the poetic prestige of their weakness.” If I’m brutally honest, that was probablyContinue reading “Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republic”

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Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republic

I believe I would have had a very hard time living in a world where women were as Josefi na Pelliza de Sagasta described it. One where “Entirely free women, with as much independence as men, would lose their greatest charms and the poetic prestige of their weakness.” If I’m brutally honest, that was probablyContinue reading “Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republic”

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Week Three – Reflections on the Casta Paintings and Catalina de Erauso

After reading about the Casta Paintings, the deconstructionist side of me wonders what Jacques Derrida would have to say about them and everything they stood for. I find it fascinating that the separation of society is so fastidiously depicted in the paintings right down to what was worn by whom; and I suppose they had […]

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