The Adelita glorified oppressive cultural norms that created the notion that women are supposed to be submissive to males, where they were reimaged as promiscuous women (prostitutes) who were disrupting society due to their inability to control their sexuality. Soldaderas, were women who joined the Revolution by becoming soldiers and gained their emancipation by conquering the limitations that were placed upon them based on their gender by trading in brooms for artilleries (Figure 3). They shed the docile image that was placed upon women at the time and strapped on their bandoliers and picked up rifles, which at the time caused a great commotion because the idea of women picking up weapons was a radical
The Adelita glorified oppressive cultural norms that created the notion that women are supposed to be submissive to males, where they were reimaged as promiscuous women (prostitutes) who were disrupting society due to their inability to control their sexuality. Soldaderas, were women who joined the Revolution by becoming soldiers and gained their emancipation by conquering the limitations that were placed upon them based on their gender by trading in brooms for artilleries (Figure 3). They shed the docile image that was placed upon women at the time and strapped on their bandoliers and picked up rifles, which at the time caused a great commotion because the idea of women picking up weapons was a radical