“Yo no me voy a casar, digo, yo quiero divertirme”. Resistir siendo mujeres solas
Being a man or a woman is a process which results from belonging to a social fabric and to a network of relationships, representations, discourses, practices, and power relations which are always defined by time, space, and gender. In this article, gender construction is apprehended through the link...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut Pluridisciplinaire pour les Etudes sur l'Amérique Latine
2019-07-01
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| Series: | L'Ordinaire des Amériques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/orda/4756 |
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| Summary: | Being a man or a woman is a process which results from belonging to a social fabric and to a network of relationships, representations, discourses, practices, and power relations which are always defined by time, space, and gender. In this article, gender construction is apprehended through the link between “discourse action” and “practice action”. Discourse action gives birth to a “norm” which defines what a woman is, how she behaves, how and when she can inhabit space, what type of work she can have access to (depending on the type and location and this professional activity), and, most importantly, the power relations between men and women. Practice action keeps this “norm” alive while constantly questioning it, which creates cracks through which some women enter thanks to improvised strategies. This allows them to escape the most established and rigid cultural symbols which frame these norms and models. This article studies the way dark-skinned women from the Costa Choca in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico come up with (both conscious and unconscious) strategies to free themselves from the mechanisms sustaining these norms which are imposed by the patriarchal practices of the region. Among “abnormal” relationships between men and women are these consisting in not having any relationship with men. |
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| ISSN: | 2273-0095 |