Mexican Feminist Analysis

Throughout history throughout the world many men have developed a stereotype that has made women to be inferior to men. While women play vital roles in human life for the upbringing of a family and the well-being of them many times those jobs go unappreciated. In Mexico on the other hand, the roles of women not only have they been those of housewives nor of exploitation throughout history, but they had times where they played major roles like those of men. In many cases some of the roles that they played have been of landowners, skilled workers, and even soldiers in both sides of the revolution. Although women did participate in the revolution and many played key roles at the end women did not benefit since they ended up being oppressed at …show more content…
As the revolution has been represented as men fighting for the freedom of the people there was a broader revolution that took place. Salas describes women in “The Soldaderas”, “Women foraged, cooked, cared for the wounded, and ‘fought when they felt like it’” (93). While many historians talk about the great battles that took place between the men that won the revolution, it was not without the help of the women that made that possible. While many of the men were fighting it was the women that were getting them fit to fight. Moreover, as recent modern militaries have their main infantry units that bring the fight to the enemy, it is the support units that make it possible for the battles to be successful by helping those infantry units with their well-being, but also fighting in battles. Salas also explains “Often, when soldaderas brought for and coffee to their men in the trenches, they took up the men’s rifles and fired away as the men ate” …show more content…
As Villa created his Dorados, Salas explains “he tried to relieve soldaderas of their function as cooks, foragers, and nurses by establishing official commissary and medical corps” (100). This shows how once again as women are proving to being equal or even being more than men, once again they are forced to step-down and become inferior to men. Also as they were proving the world that they can be equal and they were fighting for equality in the revolution, their outcome after the revolution was not what expected. “After the revolution, many soldaderas lived and died in poverty, without the pensions and hospital care awarded to male veterans” (103). This shows that as the revolution ended the downside was that the women who fought in the revolution did not benefit from the revolution as individuals. But although they did not it did create a history for women that in present days can be looked at and show the egalitarian position of women towards