Gender Stereotypes In Real Women Have Curves

The movie “Real Women Have Curves” is a good representation of some of the things that was discussed in the text book. From some of the theories such as Social Cognitive View on Gender and Gender Schema Theory, to the stereotypes that was in the movie, then there are how adolescents are affected by the culture as well as ethnicity that is around them. There are also the relationships that Ana has with the people in her life, as well as some major turning points. Finally, there is how Ana changed from the beginning to the end of the movie as well as how some of the other characters changed throughout the movie. There were many things that were going on in this movie and each thing expressed something important. There were many different theories that were shown and expressed in the movie. …show more content…
From the beginning until the end of the movie her mother kept saying how Ana was too big and how she should lose weight if she wanted to find a man. This is because her mother is under the impression that men only want to marry women who are skinny because of what she has seen around their neighborhood and is convinced of this because Ana’s sister is also not skinny, it has been 11 years since her 18th birthday and she isn’t married, so in the mother’s head this must be true. Another example was when Ana was showing that she is intelligent while they were at work one day and her mother said a man doesn’t want a woman who is intelligent, basically saying that they want someone who will agree with them on almost everything. Again the mother is in the stereotype mind set of what she grew up used too and what is common in their neighborhood. There are many different examples of stereotypes of how Mexican family’s and Mexican women should be throughout the movie, but in Ana’s eyes these are all old traditions and are no longer accurate for her