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What is Marianismo?

What is Marianismo? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The concept, found in Latin American folk culture, that a virtuous woman should emulate the Virgin Mary in piousness, sexual purity, modesty, etc.
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Marianismo has been an ideal, with women's role as being within the family under the authority of men.
Variation in rates of participation can be explained in part by cultural contexts, and in Mexico, dominant cultural ideologies of machismo and marianismo prevail.

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