Real Women Have Curves

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Since the day we were brought into this world we have been given a specific gender, and with that given gender came certain roles, and expectations for that gender.

Girls are wrapped up in pink blankets, get their ears pierced and are given dollhouses, dolls, and kitchen setups as toys, thereby enforcing society’s expectations for girls to be the nurturing sex, and one that also does the cooking and cleaning.

The boys are placed in blue hats and given guns, cars and sporting objects. Boys are expected to be the tough, go getters in society.

In the two movies we’ve watched thus far, Real Women Have Curves and Billy Elliot, both of them have used this gender role expectation as their main focus.

Starting with Real Women Have Curves, Anna, a recently graduated high school student has dreams of being the first girl in her family to go to college and to escape the family she is so different from.

Anna’s mother and father do not wish to fulfill Anna’s dream of going to college straight after high school, they would rather have her work and learn how to be a “woman” and stay at home and learn how a “woman” should act.

Anna vs. Carmen

The conflict in this movie is held mostly between Anna and her mother Carmen. Anna’s life is ran by the way Carmen thinks it should be, by her perspective of being a Latino woman. Carmen is a traditional Catholic Latin women who has her mind set on how she sees her daughters life going.

Both of these women are head strong ladies and know what they want. However their priorities in life are not the same and this is where their conflict with one another lies.

In one part of the movie Carmen fakes a sickness in the morning and asks Anna to prepare the family for their day, Anna refuses seeing as though this is Anna’s last day of her senior year in high school. T...