Eva Peron- feminist essays

Eva Peron- feminist essays Eva Pern- Argentine Feminist Eva Pern Argentine Feminist is a collection of articles edited by Lewis Hank and Jane Rausch. Eva was born in the year 1919 and died in 1952 and has been hailed as the most powerful woman in Latin American history. By the 1930s she went to Buenos Aires and became a radio and film actress. Here in 1943 she met her husband, Juan Pern, a military junta who eventually took power. After he took power is when she began all the work for womens rights. Some did not see her as a pioneer in the feminist movement but rather a tool of her husband to gain female support, however I disagree I think that she brought a lot to the feminist movement only that she did it in her own unique way. According to Websters dictionary feminist is described as the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. If you were to use this definition as the basis for reading these articles then you would say yes Eva was a feminist. According to the definition she was a feminist although she did not see herself in that light. According to Evita she wanted changes for women to be for women not for women to imitate men to achieve such changes. The major difference between her and other feminist of the time was that Eva said that without her husband guiding her she would not be able to start such a movement. Also she thought the feminists of earlier time were not entirely womanly. Eva said that if women can create a happy home with men then they should be able to create a happy humanity together with men. She basically states that women should more or less accept being a woman and the place that the more intelligent man gives them is there place that they should accept that. This was totally against what many other feminist thinkers thought. Eva was actually telling women that it is ok to be subservient to a man and used herself and her hus...