Mexican American Women, Dress and Gender by Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo

Author:Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo [Ibarraran-Bigalondo, Amaia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Sociology
ISBN: 9780429656910
Google: 2CiNDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-15T04:52:39+00:00

The hippie revolution gave women the chance to seek and fight for their own destinies and they connected with the feminist movement, which also influenced the fashion of the Seventies. This was embodied in models such as Lauren Hutton, “who personified the natural look and the image of the modern women; energetic and engaged in purposeful action and able to play many roles” (Rubinstein 212). The female roles and models that embodied the spirit of the Sixties and Seventies, however, left nonwhite women of the US aside and perpetuated a standard of femininity that did not account for the ethnic, economic, and social reality of the country. The mandates of female beauty (or nonbeauty), as well as the new paths that were opening for women in the country, were still noninclusive and perpetuated the Anglo, middle-class domination in the nation. The struggle of the Chicana feminists occurred and was exacerbated in this context of exclusion and invisibility. Aligning itself with many of the postulates of the white feminist movement, it added group-and class-specific issues to its demands, which accounted for and exposed the real ethnic and class diversity of the country.

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