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In five pages this paper examines how Hispanics and African Americans define femininity in these films, and the role masculinity plays in this definition. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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for Latinas and Black women, it is defined more by their respective subcultures. Families often perpetuate attitudes as well as gender stereotypes, which influence the interpretation of femininity.
Patricia Cardosos 2002 film Real Women Have Curves and Gary Hardwicks 2003 film Deliver Us from Eva contemplate femininity from Latina and Black points of view. They consider how
women are seen by their male counterparts and by their female contemporaries and examine the role masculinity plays in defining femininity for both sexes. Real Women Have Curves has a
decidedly feminist slant because it examines the femininity of its Latina protagonist Ana Garcia (America Ferrera) from a socioeconomic perspective. She, her mother Carmen (Lupe Ontiveros), and their female
neighbors languish in her sister Estelas (Ingrid Oliu) dress factory, a working environment more commonly known by the laborers of the East Los Angeles counterculture as a sweatshop. Ana
speaks out against the substandard wages she and her co-workers earn for sewing gowns that cost $18 each to assemble and then are sold to prestigious department stores like Bloomingdales
with price tags of $600 on them. When Ana dares to question Estela, "Does this seem right to you?" she is told simply to, "Just work" (Real Women Have
Curves). This suggests that Latinas are expected to know their place - at the lowest rung of the socioeconomic ladder - and accept it without question. She also
is comfortable with her own ample figure, which "postfeminists would have labeled a doubly wrong body: shes zaftig and ethnic" (Holmlund 118). In
contrast, Deliver Us from Eva features a professionally successful protagonist - health inspector Evangeline "Eva" Dandridge - who has assumed the patriarchal roles in the lives of her three sisters
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