In the Land of God and Man, juxtaposes the lifestyle of privileged uppers class Latin American women with that of the poor women of the region. While class differences affect the resources women have to cope with female hardships, all Latin American women seem to share in their struggle with machismo. Paternostro's main concern is to highlight the repressive lifestyle these women live, and the suffering that dominant Latin men impose on them.
[...] In the land of God and Man In the Land of God and Man, juxtaposes the lifestyle of privileged uppers class Latin American women with that of the poor women of the region. While class differences affect the resources women have to cope with female hardships, all Latin American women seem to share in their struggle with machismo. Paternostro's main concern is to highlight the repressive lifestyle these women live, and the suffering that dominant Latin men impose on them. [...]
[...] Traces of Napoleonic law (sets men the sole head of the marital unit because women are seen by the state as creatures incapable of full development and therefore in need of protection provided by also further female inferiority in Latin American society (pg. 10). Women needed the consent of their fathers or husbands to attain the education, “accept or relinquish an inheritance or exercise a profession” (pg. and many still use the attached to their names at marriage. Thus, Napoleonic law ensured male dominance over women's lives and still influences the customs followed by society. [...]
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