Sexuality In California's Franciscan Missions By Albert L. Hurtado

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The article is called Sexuality in California's Franciscan Missions by Albert L. Hurtado. This article tells us about sexuality in the Mission. Albert purpose for writing this article called Sexuality In California’s Franciscan Missions was to explain how the natives people at this time were affected. The ways that were affected by their religion believes. According to christianity this was wrong to do. It was known to be harm and as well committing a sin. By what they believed in they were taught to act in two different perspective. Girls were known to be girly and as well being caring. In the other hand boys were told to be tough and to not cry for any reasons. This was something society was known to believe in according to their religion. …show more content…
The author’s challenging of other historical viewpoints were two different thoughts to be. The Indians believed that it was alright for the same sex to marry each other while the spanish thought is was inconsiderate to do. The Spanish believed that this was inconsiderate to do because they believed that a boy and girl are suppose to be with each other. And not two girls or two boys. In the other hand the Indians did not believed in the same believes as the Catholic believed in . Evidence that is shown may be found on page 375. This image shows a Indian women making baskets and ropes and it takes place in Southern California mission. In the mission it was known to teach young women how to provide for their families. As this images shows how they are making baskets, that are probably going to be used to carry food and fresh fruits to take back home for their children's. In this case they were also taught to prepare healthy meals to give to their love ones. Also on page 380 there is a image of a dormitory which was used to segregate boys and girls. A another source of evidence that is shown in the article is on page 383. Is a image of a Indian women washing clothes this prove that women were taught how to wash clothes as well that it took place in the Mission. Evidence that I found in our class textbook called Competing Visions: A History of California by Robert W. Cherry on page 13 shows …show more content…
By reading this article our society may realize of how harsh women were treated at this time, and we could change what we were doing wrong. By realizing we could treat women with more care and help out around the house. By reading this article I could contribute to this to the history of the United States of how our people today should be more mind open based of what was happening at this time period. At this time period people were treated unfairly and had no rights. Today we develop more rights, especially for women. An example of how this article supports competing versions is how Hillary Clinton supported women. In general I believe that most women of our country supported Hillary for many reasons such as providing a higher paid for us women. While Trump promotes gender norms while women are against. This has to do with this article because at this time women did not had as much as rights as we have today which Hillary is trying to fight for. I suggest people to read I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai with Patricia Mccormick because this books talks about women's rights and it is a well known example of a historic event about how women stood up for each

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