Angle Of The House Essay

The angle of the house Women in the Latin America straggle a lot to achieve their rights as human beings. There had been so many different stories that women got abused and treat like a second gender. Men were basically the head of a society and involved with making impotent decision for their country. Although Society and tradition at that time was expected woman to be at home and take care of their children, house and their husband or in other word woman were called angle of the house, but in other hand, there had been a group of women that stood up and ask for their rights and played an important role for gender equality. Generally good women were the one who stayed at home and not working …show more content…
The reality that women were facing at that time was different from the actual concept of angle of the house. Dona Hilaria Hernandez was a woman who claimed a divorce form her husband, the one who was supposed to support her financially. In her own words about her husband “the daily wage he earned when working as a tailor he spent on enjoyment with his lover… he has offered me only continual beatings and threats at knifepoint” (Murray 50), although she went to court several times but no one took action or actually helped her. Dona could not be an angle of the house because in order to live she needed to work and she also asked for divorce which was not acceptable that time. However there were some other rich or from middle class women who could be an angle of the house but they choose not to be. Manuela Saenz can be a very good example of those women who work as an activist in politics and different movements during independence, she chooses not to be just the angle of the house or stay at home. According to Jane Dysart the author of Western Historical Quarterly book, he also mentioned that “when men were absent for extended periods for time – hunting, fighting, or conducting business in distant cities, women had to assume