Monday, February 28, 2005

Latin American Feminist Movement

In the readings for this week, we read a couple of articles dealing with the Feminist movement in Latin America. The Latin American women's movement seems to focus on a different aspect of women--the fact that the women should stay at home, women should maintain their domestic role in society--which got one of my classmates upset. Compared to the United States' women's movement, it seems as if the women's movement in Latin America is shooting a little low, asking for more equality, domestic protection, and eduction but limiting itself in traditional domestic roles. I wonder, does anybody think that the Latin American women should shoot for something like the United States' movement, or is this movement sufficient for their society?

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