Sexuality, New Constructions Of Masculinity And Feminism.

Sexuality, new constructions of masculinity and feminism.

Within society, the symbolic genre becomes a set of laws, rules and policies that dictates the behavior of the human being, these norms allow a status within the cultural. Gender is the device through which it gives rise to the production and normalization of the masculine and female along with all the forms that gender assumes, however, this does not determine the human being, the genre implies showing itself with a female matrixor masculine, but it could well be the device through which, these terms are denatured.

Gender and sexuality allows us to reflect on the kinship that currently exists with different sexual preferences that people maintain within society and the suffering suffered by those who do not fit within the moral norms taught, the power is disputed forSurvival, it is thus, that in recent years several movements have been generated that struggle for inclusion within a moralistic society, that oppressed individual because it does not participate in what is considered normal, laws have been created to respect the rights of the rights ofCitizens on equal terms.

In the 1990s, a critical time for the country of Cuba, the Masculin arises through film production, the reality of the society represented by men is announced, relations are shown as a product of immediate consumption. "While gender representations constitute social positions loaded with meanings, they represent themselves as a man or woman, implies the recognition of all the effects of those meanings" (Lauretis, 1996).

In that sense, the cinema allows to analyze the genre through the representations that are made, it is the scene to interpret the development of a society and this serves as a reference to guide the behavior of individuals within their environment, it is so, that, thatThe author mentions:

‘Sexual difference structures us psychically, gender is the symbolization of that difference and culturally structures us’ 

(Lamas, 1990). 

Society wishes to build a collective conscience and set aside individual consciousness, that is, that the human being loses its essence and the power to build its reality. Telling the history of women in Ecuador, remains a necessity in our time, making known the approaches and demands through the compilation of these anthologies will lead to visible female thinking in the first half of the twentieth century, some basic issues such as thefeminism or access to suffrage were debated in newspapers of the time, many times dissident thought was linked to providing participation in the areas of social and political life by women, which were truncated due to the conditions ofIsolation, one of the opponents was the Catholic Church that initially did not see with good eyes that women were part of politics, believed that they should be mothers and educate their children well so that through them they could change society, so they were considered feminists because their subordination was not natural, but was oralized by society.

During the twentieth century, Ecuadorian feminism explicitly explicitIndigenous movement and the peasant, we can also mention Dolores Twenty -Galind. It was an atmosphere of liberalism, several groups of writers spread publications where they defended the equity and improvement of conditions for women, these writings motivated participation in the public sphere.

Female thought expressed mainly through poetry, making us known the environment in which women lived and the demands they demanded. Inclusion in education would allow them to become visible actors within a macho retrograde society that does not admit change. From this perspective, the woman would continue to climb to achieve a job, have economic stability and this is the beginning for self-realization, leaving a legacy, being an active part of the development of society for future generations and expressing the constant struggle to defend rights.

At the beginning of the Republic with Vicente Roca Fuerte and Gabriel García Moreno (1860-1875), women stood out, playing a new role within civilization and improvement of customs. Victoria Vásconez, highlighted the importance of education to break the most oppressive chain "ignorance", in addition to playing the role of abnegated wives and mothers, opening for women to access all professions and achieve equal salaries, rightto vote, etc. Adelaida Velasco Galdós highlights women as the light of progress that exalts, dignifies, honors, and consecrates to do good, the Ecuadorian woman has been, is and will be a worthy example of historical struggle and symbol without ostentation.

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• Beinier Barrios Mesa (2004). Masculinity in Cuban fiction cinema of the nineties. Faculty
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• Ana María Goetschel, compiler (2006). Origins of feminism in Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador.