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Quotes from La Chicana-Legacy of Suffering and Self-Denial — Anna Nieto-Gómez

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The roots of the psyche of la Chicana lies deep within the colonial period in Mexico.

La Chicana-Legacy of Suffering and Self-Denial (1995)

The veneration of the Virgin Mary defined the woman's identity as a virgin, as a saintly mother, as a wife-sex object, as a martyr.

La Chicana-Legacy of Suffering and Self-Denial (1995)

The popular image of Mexican woman is as somber-clad, long-suffering females praying in dimly-lit colonial churches. Church teachings have directed women to identify with the emotional suffering of the pure, passive bystander: the Virgin Mary.

La Chicana-Legacy of Suffering and Self-Denial (1995)

Because culture is a remnant which mirrors people's accumulative economic adaptations in history, the social-psychological roles of Mexican men and women are the products of the economic and class conditions of 300 years of oppression.

La Chicana-Legacy of Suffering and Self-Denial (1995)

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