Abstract
After more than three thousand North American casualties in the Iraq War and a senatorial election showing strong opposition to the war, one might wish to go back in history to analyze the different voices that opposed the armed conflict. Among those countries that opposed the war was Mexico. Mexico acted according to its non-intervention policy. However, sexism in the language was present in the voices expressing opposition. Mexican society has been recognized as a machismo or patriarchal society. Men are the providers in the house: women do not have to work. The sole role of women is to bear and look after their children (Nash 1999; Fought 2003). This ideology in turn permeates language; in Cameron’s words (1990, 89) “society holds [these] beliefs about men and women and their relative status; language … reflects those beliefs.”
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de la luz Matus-Mendoza, M. (2007). Warriors or Amazons: How Opposing the War in Iraq Became a Gender Issue in Mexico. In: Obajtek-Kirkwood, AM., Hakanen, E.A. (eds) Signs of War: From Patriotism to Dissent. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230610026_8
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