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A young woman talking with a group of young men in El Segundo Barrio, El Paso (1971) Although the Chicano Movement was organized toward empowering the greater Mexican American community, the narratives and focus of the Movement largely ignored the women that were involved with organizing during this period of civil disobedience.
The lack of prioritization of Chicana issues in the annual Mexican American National Issues Conferences were due to the fact that it was issues of women, not men, the group of women believed. Therefore, the group of women decided to create an organization to address their issues without having to deal with, "the male sexism in the Chicano ...
The conference raised the issue of feminism within the Chicano community. [18] It led to the creation of resolutions from two of the largest workshops, "Sex and the Chicana" and "Marriage--Chicana Style" which addressed women's rights, access to birth control and abortions and for Chicana women to denounce machismo, discrimination in education, double standards for men and women and "the ...
The Chicano Movement and its leaders allowed the Hispanic community to have room in conversations in modern-day America and have empowered them to exercise their rights. Cinco de Mayo was borne of ...
The group Hijas de Cuauhtémoc became a way for women in the Chicana/o movement to organize collectively. They were able to express their experience as young, working-class Chicanas and to address issues that were ignored in the student's movement like for example their critique about machismo in the Chicano movement.
Las Adelitas de Aztlán were a combined group of women from the Brown Berets and other similar organizations created to support one another in their goals to fight for Chicano rights and aid one another in their obstacles as women in the Chicano movement. The goal of this group was not to be a formal organization, but rather a "discussion and ...
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Women at the conference held an impromptu workshop about the role of feminist liberation, and "[i]t was the consensus of the group that the Chicana woman does not want to be liberated." [6] This statement is complex, because the understanding of feminism at the time was so tied to White women's liberation at the expense of other women. The ...