Gender Roles in Salt of the Earth, El Norte and Zoot Suit

Throughout the accounting of Chicano film and literature, sexual urge roles and gender specific stereotypes have play a monu handstal role, define an entire generation of cinema. Whether it is the Latin lover and his irrepressible charm, the machismo who demonstrates primitive strength, the Dark Lady who invokes proneness from men of every race, or the influential and hard chokening(a) women who overcome insurmountable obstacles. \nIn the film Salt of the Earth, direct by Herbert J. Biberman, the gender roles ride a dramatic miscue neer seen before in Chicano film. The obvious differences in how community treats the men and the women of this mining township are quickly do clear; the men achievement and are part of the wedding while the women stay home plate and take care of the family. These men, and especially those men from this generation with Mexican heritage, often saw women as weak and n earlyish ineffectual in anything other than squirt rearing. \nThis depend ence seen in women of this eon period was largely due in part to economics. The lush gender distinction that created men as the working house prevented women from seeking means to scram economically independent, thus never allowing them to act freely or to make key decisions regarding their mental attitude in life. \nIn the early twentieth century, Mexican women adhered to rigorous gender roles; while romish Quintero was forced to deal with progressively poor work conditions, his married woman Esperanza could only continue to run their home as she passively waited for change to come. Esperanza had literally no power indoors her home, or the wider community, so that the concerns she had for practical matters were near completely ignored by the activities of the male Union activists. The women within the mining community were consistently treated with the same patronising disdain that the Anglo workers displayed toward their Mexican counterparts. However, as time went on s he and several(prenominal) of her peers found the strength and powe...