1. Amalia Mesa-Bains describes the domestic roles for Chicana women and how it can be limiting, and then brings up Chicana rasquache. She describes female rasquachismo as having “[grown] out of women’s restrictions within the culture” and “[defying] the restrictive gender identity posed by the Chicano culture” (307). How does this impact both the Chicana feminist movement as well as the Chicano social justice movements?
2. Laura Perez notes that women have “reinterpreted traditional religious symbols used to control female sexuality in more egalitarian ways” (4). How can this act empower women? What are other examples of women reinterpreting their history or culture to empower themselves?
3. In La Ofrenda, Lourdes Portillo notes “in the rigidity of mexican society, where rules and behavior have been prescribed for thousands of years … [the celebrators] have allowed themselves to be free momentarily” (24:53). How is this reflected in the Days of the Dead and the art surrounding it?
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