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This article made me believe in not only the union fight but the power women could have in the union struggle. The line that clearly stood out to me was, "It doesn't take courage. All it takes is standing up for what you believe in,..."(285). Jessie did not want to be known as courageous, as someone who should be idiolzed but she was, for a woman to step outside societal norms and challenge practices was not common. She just wanted people to come together and fight for what they deserved and the help she had from the nurse to enter Parlier proved that many people felt the same and just wanted to see a good outcome.-Megan W. | This article made me believe in not only the union fight but the power women could have in the union struggle. The line that clearly stood out to me was, "It doesn't take courage. All it takes is standing up for what you believe in,..."(285). Jessie did not want to be known as courageous, as someone who should be idiolzed but she was, for a woman to step outside societal norms and challenge practices was not common. She just wanted people to come together and fight for what they deserved and the help she had from the nurse to enter Parlier proved that many people felt the same and just wanted to see a good outcome.-Megan W. | ||
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| + | I saw a lot of parallels between these Mexican American women organizing the farm workers and the African American women involved in the black civil rights movement. Both faced intense discrimination from the men within their own movements. Even though these women worked side by side with men in the fields, the men still didn't believe they should be involved in political action. Yet the farm workers at least had the support of Cesar Chavez who specifically sought out women activists, something the black civil rights workers did not have. Chavez seems to have been very forward thinking in his refusal to allow traditional Mexican American dynamics to keep women in the home and away from organizing, something that I'm sure helped his movement greatly. -Mary Ann | ||
==Date Rape: Hysteria or Epidemic? Katie Roiphe== | ==Date Rape: Hysteria or Epidemic? Katie Roiphe== | ||
