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Gender Roles In Colonial Latin America

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Since the start of colonial Latin America, the development of gender roles in certain Latin American societies has been dependent on culture, socializing agents, and the time period/modernization. While gender roles can be related to anything a typical male/female would do in society, the 2003 Peruvian film, Destiny Has No Favorites, directed by Alvaro Velarde, displays lively examples of how the two genders can influence each other’s actions. In the film, a housewife named Ana whose husband goes away for business, desires to participate in the soap opera being hosted in her garden even though her husband dismissed interaction with the production team. Socializing agents, or those institutions of society like friends/family/strangers, spread

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