Spending another grey, rainy weekend inside doing research for another paper/article while I fulfill my duties as housefrau extraordinaire. Today I'm reading an article on Angeles Mastretta, Mexican writer (see in Spanish it would be escritora which would alert you to the gender of the writer but in English the 'other' needs to be identified as woman writer) who writes about women from a woman's point of view, feminine voice and feminist perspective. Interesting tidbit that we all know in the fight for women's equality (yes, it is still ongoing) and unraveling the mystery of women's identity:
(de Beer, 225).
Of course my favorite question asked is the birth control one - it is the burden of the woman to prevent pregnancy and if she is not successful, becomes pregnant then her and the child become a burden to society. Still in this day and age that mentality exist - if birth control was labeled sex control then maybe it would be an acceptable practice for heterosexual men to take more responsibility for their sperm.
This piece on Mastretta was written almost 15 years ago and not much has changed...
A good book: Arrancame la vida, by Angeles Mastretta (Tear my Heart out - popular Mexican bolero) a novel based during the years of the tumultuous Mexican Revolution and the story, a bildungsroman, about a young girl who marries a soon to be powerful and violent politician, as her life progresses and unravels we experience through the use of her narrative voice, reflecting on her life - her children, her husband and his cheating ways both in love and politics, her short-lived love affair, her attempt at becoming an independent mature woman and the assigned roles she plays the befit her social standing at the time. Only at the end, does she become free from all patriarchal constraints and can hope to finally live for herself.
Of course my favorite question asked is the birth control one - it is the burden of the woman to prevent pregnancy and if she is not successful, becomes pregnant then her and the child become a burden to society. Still in this day and age that mentality exist - if birth control was labeled sex control then maybe it would be an acceptable practice for heterosexual men to take more responsibility for their sperm.
This piece on Mastretta was written almost 15 years ago and not much has changed...
A good book: Arrancame la vida, by Angeles Mastretta (Tear my Heart out - popular Mexican bolero) a novel based during the years of the tumultuous Mexican Revolution and the story, a bildungsroman, about a young girl who marries a soon to be powerful and violent politician, as her life progresses and unravels we experience through the use of her narrative voice, reflecting on her life - her children, her husband and his cheating ways both in love and politics, her short-lived love affair, her attempt at becoming an independent mature woman and the assigned roles she plays the befit her social standing at the time. Only at the end, does she become free from all patriarchal constraints and can hope to finally live for herself.
