Essays on Real Women Have Curves

In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins responds to the idea that institutionalized oppression is the result of distorted identity, in which marginalized groups either identify with their oppressors and thus lack the means to validate their experience or are somehow inferior to their oppressors…

According to historian Arnoldo de León, Mexican Americans have used the word “Chicano” to describe people of Mexican origin living in the United States since the early twentieth century. In the same period Latinos started to showing their own identity through filmmaking. Latino feature films…

Women try to balance their lives, and as they grow in different stages, they are positioned between traditional roles and becoming modern career women. The environment they live in determines the direction they will take in their lives. Women who live with their parents are…

Outspoken or Opinionated In the 21st century more women are breaking through their cultural and ethical values and becoming independent. Women of the present and future unlike the women of the past have their own thoughts, beliefs, and lifestyles despite what society believes. In the…

Imagine being contained in a crowded room lacking proper ventilation with hundreds of others. The last time you saw daylight was 10+ hours ago. Frantically, you feed fabric through a sewing machine as if competing for Olympic gold. Only in these close quarters, there is…

The title of the movie Real Women Have Curves has a double meaning. Not only does it refer to body shape, but it also refer to the person who has the guts to do something and always is able to reach her goal. The director…