Category: Machismo

Abstract This paper explores the varied history of womens rights within Mexico and the modern implications of the Mexican womens rights movement. This paper is structured chronologically, with a brief overview of the history of women in Mexico before delving into modern issues. The concept of machismo is also explored within the essay and is…

Machismo has been around since the 1930s from Columbian descent. The term was used in Puerto Rico shortly after, often referring to members of street gangs and to the men of the households. While predominantly run by the Roman Catholic and evangelical Christian churches, the island has very few sanctuaries for the LGBTQ community where…

In the poems Tú me quieres blanca and in Hombre pequeñito, Alfosina Storni writes about womens struggles with machismo. Storni openly and actively criticizes the men of society and those who value men and their desires more than those of women. To express her frustrations and emphasize societys hypocrisy Storni uses many elements of modernism…

In A Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur, he symbolizes the concrete as the ghetto which is where he grew up in. The second symbol in his poem is a rose which represents himself and all the difficult things that he has went through. In a similar way, the rose is the women…

According to the American Journal of Public Health, machismo sexual behavior is a source of pride for males and men must prove their manliness by upholding their sexual dominance. In this way, reputation is one of the driving forces behind machismo. We see this prides affect in How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents by…