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be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<\/a><\/p>\n

5 Minutes Of What The Media actually Does To Women<\/a>
\n“Real Women Have Curves” href=”http:\/\/www.cineddhh.org\/guias-didacticas\/mujeres-de-verdad\/i-introduccion\/#g”> Real Women Have Curves<\/a>.Information from IPES about this film (Spanish & Vask)<\/p>\n

This is the story of Ana, a first generation Mexican-American teenager on the verge of becoming a woman. She lives in the predominately Latino community of East Los Angeles. Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college. Torn between her mainstream ambitions and her cultural heritage she agrees to work with her mother at her sister’s downtown LA sewing factory (a sweatshop<\/a> ). Over the summer she learns to admire the hardworking team of women who teach her solidarity and teamwork. Still at odds with what her mother expects of her, Ana realizes that leaving home to continue her education is essential to finding her place proudly in the world as an American and Chicana.<\/p>\n

INTERVIEW Patricia Cardoso (A vivir que son dos d\u00edas- Cadena SER):05-10-2013 Patricia Cardoso: “La tiran\u00eda de la est\u00e9tica es una dictadura para la mujer”<\/p>\n

*WHAT IS GENDER? (definition by FAO Produced by: Economic and Social Development Department:)<\/p>\n

Gender is defined by FAO as \u2018the relations between men and women, both perceptual and material. Gender is not determined biologically, as a result of sexual characteristics of either women or men, but is constructed socially. It is a central organizing principle of societies, and often governs the processes of production and reproduction, consumption and distribution\u2019 (FAO, 1997). Despite this definition, gender is often misunderstood as being the promotion of women only. However, as we see from the FAO definition, gender issues focus on women and on the relationship between men and women, their roles, access to and control over resources, division of labour, interests and needs. Gender relations affect household security, family well-being, planning, production and many other aspects of life (Bravo-Baumann, 2000).<\/p>\n

[Box 1] DEFINITION OF GENDER ROLES AND GENDER RELATIONS<\/p>\n

Gender roles are the \u2018social definition\u2019 of women and men. They vary among different societies and cultures, classes, ages and during different periods in history. Gender-specific roles and responsibilities are often conditioned by household structure, access to resources, specific impacts of the global economy, and other locally relevant factors such as ecological conditions (FAO, 1997).<\/p>\n

Gender relations are the ways in which a culture or society defines rights, responsibilities, and the identities of men and women in relation to one another (Bravo-Baumann, 2000).<\/p>\n

*Gender studies
\nFrom Wikipedia
\nGender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyses race, ethnicity, sexuality and location.[1]
\nThe philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said: “One is not born a woman, one becomes one”.[2] In gender studies, the term “gender” is used to refer to the social and cultural constructions of masculinities and femininities, not to the state of being male or female in its entirety.[3] The field emerged from a number of different areas: the sociology of the 1950s and later (see Sociology of gender); the theories of the psychoanalyst Jaques Lacan; and the work of feminists such as Judith Butler.
\nEach field came to regard “gender” as a practice, sometimes referred to as something that is performative.[4] Feminist theory of psychoanalysis, articulated mainly by Julia Kristeva[5] (the “semiotic” and “abjection”) and Bracha Ettinger[6] (the “matrixial trans-subjectivity” and the “primal mother-phantasies”), and informed both by Freud, Lacan and the Object relations theory, is very influential in gender studies.<\/p>\n

Interesting page related to many intelligent women written in Spanish (it is worth having a look at it).The section is called \u00bfQui\u00e9n es la m\u00e1s inteligente?<\/a> and it is included in the section “celebrities” from the page masquechicos.com<\/p>\n

QUESTIONS ON THE MOVIE (Real Women …)<\/p>\n

1.- In Los Angeles, one of the biggest cultures is Mexican, or more generally known as, Latin-
\nThere are different cultures in your city, which are they?<\/p>\n

2.- Do you think that the shock of generations happens in all the cultures in the same way (like with Ana and her mother)?<\/p>\n

3. Do you think Ana is a strong person? Why or why not?<\/p>\n

4. What do you understand by beauty?<\/p>\n

5. What kind of relationship can we have between anorexia and bulimia and standards of beauty that we usually see on TV, magazines and fashion?<\/p>\n

6. Is Estela’s little factory really a sweat shop? Do you agree that selling a dress for $18 which later sells at Bloomindales for $600 is \u201cjust not right\u201d?<\/p>\n

7.Acording to the information<\/a> taken from several newspapers, the Spanish retail chain ZARA, was found to be using “slave labour” to make garments. Would you buy clothes (even if ther are really cheap) if you knew they came from these labour conditions?<\/p>\n

8. What did you like and not like about this movie?<\/p>\n

*MUSIC<\/a> in the film (Lila Downs<\/a>…)<\/p>\n

………………………………………………………………………………………..<\/p>\n

* We are going to work on the scenes in which Ana, before meeting her boyfriend, goes into the drugstore (chemist\u00b4s in british English) to buy condoms and the two following scenes, the moment in which she is with her boyfriend in a bedroom and after being with him she says goodbye to him for ever. Why do you think she says bye in that way? Does she really love him? Why does she say good bye in that way?.
\nAt the end of this fragment, her mother realizes Ana\u00b4s lost her virginity and talks to her. What do you think about her mother’s reaction?
\nSee from minute 1.30<\/p>\n