Colonial Latin America is a very important time period that shows us where the roots of social and cultural prejudices were created. Women in particular have faced challenges fighting constraints and prejudices, like the preconceived notion that women are inferior to men; however, there are many women that fought against those normative ideas that grounded central themes in social rights that are still important today. In the hispanic culture, women learn how to cook, clean and are seen as more nurturing, even in earlier times we can see that women were seen as “gatherers” rather than “hunterers”. All of these ideas were preconceived to keep women doing feminine things and in a way characterize all women to be more passive towards power unlike
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Historically, the social and cultural structures created during colonial Latin America, were created by men. In other words, men have always had some sort of power over women just based off of how the structure was made. In turn, laws and crimes were seen different based on gender, for example, the crime of adultery was only a crime if a woman committed such crime, and if a man did it wasn 't a crime. Another crime seen in Children of God’s Fire, shows the horrible reality of prostitution amongst women in Brazil. “Prostitution was another cruel form of exploitation that Brazilian society permitted (Children of God’s Fire, 130). Women were exploited in many different ways, but this was one major way to both exploit a woman and make money while doing it. The likeliness of those prostitutes selling their body against their will was high and police in Brazil didn’t intervene unless the women were in immediate harm, which shows how little society thought of women. The term prostitute automatically describe a female selling her body and because of gender norms and prejudice, women are automatically assumed to be the prostitute rather than a man. This gives women a label that basically lowers their worth and in turn gives men more worth. These prejudices continue to affect women even now; however, class and ethnicities are still variables to consider when thinking about how women are
Historically, the social and cultural structures created during colonial Latin America, were created by men. In other words, men have always had some sort of power over women just based off of how the structure was made. In turn, laws and crimes were seen different based on gender, for example, the crime of adultery was only a crime if a woman committed such crime, and if a man did it wasn 't a crime. Another crime seen in Children of God’s Fire, shows the horrible reality of prostitution amongst women in Brazil. “Prostitution was another cruel form of exploitation that Brazilian society permitted (Children of God’s Fire, 130). Women were exploited in many different ways, but this was one major way to both exploit a woman and make money while doing it. The likeliness of those prostitutes selling their body against their will was high and police in Brazil didn’t intervene unless the women were in immediate harm, which shows how little society thought of women. The term prostitute automatically describe a female selling her body and because of gender norms and prejudice, women are automatically assumed to be the prostitute rather than a man. This gives women a label that basically lowers their worth and in turn gives men more worth. These prejudices continue to affect women even now; however, class and ethnicities are still variables to consider when thinking about how women are