Expectations From the Church The traditional idea that motherhood is an inherently sacred and essential role of a woman traditionally Catholic beliefs, and the depiction of La Virgen. La Virgen has been represented as an ideal repressed passive womanhooda—suffering, pure, and patient female, all traits traditionally expected of woman, especially when they enter motherhood. In contrast to the depiction of La Virgen, there is la Puta, w:La Llorona, or w:Malinche . These women all serve to as examples of what positive and negative femininity, and motherhood, are made up of—La Virgen being positive and idealized and the others negative and should be avoided.The depiction and idealization of La Virgen is especially significant to Latinas through the idea of w: marianismo: “ when women become mothers then, and only then, do they attain the status of Madonna .” This not only encourages women to have children to achieve status in society, but also serves to punish those who do not fit this expectation or social mold.
Expectations From the Church The traditional idea that motherhood is an inherently sacred and essential role of a woman traditionally Catholic beliefs, and the depiction of La Virgen. La Virgen has been represented as an ideal repressed passive womanhooda—suffering, pure, and patient female, all traits traditionally expected of woman, especially when they enter motherhood. In contrast to the depiction of La Virgen, there is la Puta, , or . These women all serve to as examples of what positive and negative femininity, and motherhood, are made up of—La Virgen being positive and idealized and the others negative and should be avoided.The depiction and idealization of La Virgen is especially significant to Latinas through the idea of : " when women become mothers then, and only then, do they attain the status of Madonna ". This not only encourages women to have children to achieve status in society, but also serves to punish those who do not fit this expectation or social mold.
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