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Day: 26th March 2021

F is for… Female archetypes of Latin America

26th March 202129th December 2021 / historicallywoman / 2 Comments

La Malinche, La Virgen, and La Llorona are three archetypal women from Chicano folklore who have historically been used as tools of a patriarchal society to repress women's bodily agency and sexuality. However, recently there has been a pushback by Chicana feminists to reclaim these figures - but how are they doing this, and why?

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