ENGL 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Che Guevara, Yolanda Lopez
8 Nov 2016
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Mexico arguably is a goddess worshipping nation. Common use of the virgin of guadalupe is conservative: chicanx feminist see it as the oppression of women, virgin of guadalupe is a passive, all suffering, and asexual, chicanx feminists see her as a figure of empowerment. Within church there are levels of authority to prevent doctrine from being contaminated with local memory: speaking to issue of virgin of guadalupe becoming more cultural than religious, pervades chicano space. Chicanx feminist reimage or reinvent virgin of guadalupe to become more powerful, a radical decision at time. During the 1970s, the idea of an athletic woman was a new one. During 2001, alma lopez created a collage meant to empower chicanx lesbians: took iconography of roses, half moon, and traditional framing, however incorporated indigenous myths, rebellious daughter into the cloak which further references the stars.
