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https://forum.chasedream.com/thread-1387452-1-1.html


Antonia Castañeda has utilized scholarship from women's studies and Mexican-American history to examine nineteenth-century literary portrayals of Mexican women. As Castañeda notes, scholars of women's history observe that in the Unites States, male novelists of the period─during which, according to these scholars, women's traditional economic role in home-based agriculture was threatened by the transition to a factory-based industrial economy─define women solely in their domestic roles of wife and mother. Castañeda finds that during the same period that saw non-Hispanic women being economically displaced by industrialization, Hispanic law in territorial California protected the economic position of "Californianas"(the Mexican women of the territory) by ensuring them property rights and inheritance rights equal to those of males.

For Castañeda, the laws explain a    stereotypical plot  created primarily by male, non-Hispanic novelists: the story of an ambitious non-hispanic merchant or trader desirous of marrying an elite Californiana. These novels' favourable portrayal of such women is noteworthy, since Mexican-American historians have concluded that unflattering literary depictions of Mexicans were vital in rallying the United States public's support for the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The importance of economic alliances forged through marriages with Californianas explains this    apparent contradiction  . Because of their real-life economic significance, the Californianas were portrayed more favourably than were others of the same nationality.



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• Antonia Castañeda eamine nineteenth-century literary portrayals of Mexican women.
  
  • <first finding "by other scholars">  male novelists of the period define women solely in their domestic roles of wife and mother. (background: women's traditional economic role in home-based agriculture was threatened by the transition to a factory-based industrial economy)
  • <second finding "by Castañeda > non-hispanic women being economically displaced by industrialization. Hispanic law in territorial california protected the economic position of "Californianas" by ensuring them property rights and inheritance rights equal to those of males.
    
    
• <my finding>
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  • Similarity: indeed some women being economically displaced indicated by both Castañeda and male novelists, per background of their writings)
  • Extra information: Some women were out of this group of women being displaced. This group is protected by "Hispanic law"
    
    
  
  
  
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    • <continue to discuss the second finding> explanation of a stereotype plot.
    • <sub-gategory: about the stereotype plot> the "favourable" portrayal of such women is noteworthy versus "unflattering literary depicitions of Mexicans
    • <sub-gategory: about the stereotype plot> is an apparent contradiction because of their real life economic significance - real life economic significance of women protected by hispanic law
      
    
    

1. The “ apparent contradiction ” mentioned in line 29 refers to the discrepancy between the

• literary depiction of elite Californianas and the literary depiction of other (under gategory of Mexican individuals - <sub-gategory: about the stereotype plot> )
  

2. Which of the following could best serve as an example of the kind of fictional plot discussed by Antonia Castañeda?

• A land speculator of English ancestry weds the daughter of a Mexican vineyard owner after the speculator has migrated to California to seek his fortune (continue to discuss second finding)
  

3. Which of the following, if true, would provide the most support for Castañeda's explanation of the “ stereotypical plot ” mentioned in lines 18-19?

• Records from the nineteenth century indicate that some large and valuable properties were owned by elite Californianas in their own right. (continue to discuss second finding - Hispanic law ensures women to have property rights and inheritance rights equal to those of males.