The Media Representations of Latin American Women and Men in the Dominican Republic

Jazlyn Abreu

Sex & Gender in Latin America

Professor Ochoa-Winemiller

Summer III

The Media Representations of Latin American Women and Men in the Dominican Republic

Both Dominican women and men have representations that seem to amaze different

cultures. Both genders are specific on how they should be represented and are limited on the

things they can do/wear to value their representation.

In the beginning of my paper I will be talking about the culture the Dominican Republic

has on their people. The different ways their culture affects them gender and sexuality wise. I

will talk about “Machismo” which is defined as a strong sense of masculine pride to where

women are known as the weak ones who wear pink and the men are known as the strong, super

hero ones who wear blue. How women “culturally” aren’t allowed to work, which makes them

housewives and stay at home moms.While the men are the ones who perform all the hard labor

and support financially.

The middle/body of my paper will be research about how Dominican women tend to

receive a lot of racism and stereotype comments due to the fact that Dominicans come in

different skin tone colors and different hair textures. Dominican women are taught to always be

pretty and to always be in shape, have a nice body form. While the men were taught to be the

strongest and handsomest men out there, always being up to date with fashion wear. Both, like to

be the center of attention.

Towards the end, I will talk about how dominican women and men are visualized in

today’s world. I will find research that has a comparison from years ago and how much there’s

been a change, if there was a change and if there would be a change in the future.

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