TY  - GEN
AB  - Flowers for Guadalupe/Flores para Guadalupe explores the importance of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a liberating symbol for Mexican women today. In the course of this richly textured treatment of an evolving symbol, twenty-three women speak out, in traditional testimonio format. This unusual "contata" of women s voices representing urban, small-town, and rural communities, is intercut with scenes of daily women's work and celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe in various contexts, including festivities organized by the Comite Guadalupano in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N. Y. Women have been silenced for centuries in Mexico. By focusing on various feminine forms of devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe as Mexican women's "role model," an entire world of consciousness unfolds. It is a resilient, hard-working, often painful, violent world, encompassing women of all ages and from various walks of life. They belong to a wider world of popular devotion, historically both exploited and dismissed as unimportant by ecclesiastical authorities who would keep women in a place where they no longer want to be. The documentary follows an all-women pilgrimage from Queretaro state through several arduous but joyful days as it weaves its way through difficult terrain, harsh weather and congested streets to the Virgin s shrine in Mexico City. The songs of Rosa Martha Zarate, Mexico s "singing nun," sustains this and every woman s pilgrimage.
AU  - Gleason, Judith.
AU  - Mereghetti, Elisa.
CY  - New York, NY :
DA  - 1996.
ID  - 1355621
KW  - Guadalupe, Our Lady of.
KW  - Women
KW  - Religion
KW  - Women's issues
LA  - This edition in English.
LK  - http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1630792
N1  - Originally released as DVD.
N1  - Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
N2  - Flowers for Guadalupe/Flores para Guadalupe explores the importance of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a liberating symbol for Mexican women today. In the course of this richly textured treatment of an evolving symbol, twenty-three women speak out, in traditional testimonio format. This unusual "contata" of women s voices representing urban, small-town, and rural communities, is intercut with scenes of daily women's work and celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe in various contexts, including festivities organized by the Comite Guadalupano in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N. Y. Women have been silenced for centuries in Mexico. By focusing on various feminine forms of devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe as Mexican women's "role model," an entire world of consciousness unfolds. It is a resilient, hard-working, often painful, violent world, encompassing women of all ages and from various walks of life. They belong to a wider world of popular devotion, historically both exploited and dismissed as unimportant by ecclesiastical authorities who would keep women in a place where they no longer want to be. The documentary follows an all-women pilgrimage from Queretaro state through several arduous but joyful days as it weaves its way through difficult terrain, harsh weather and congested streets to the Virgin s shrine in Mexico City. The songs of Rosa Martha Zarate, Mexico s "singing nun," sustains this and every woman s pilgrimage.
PB  - Filmakers Library,
PP  - New York, NY :
PY  - 1996.
T1  - Flowers for Guadalupe / flores para Guadalupe
TI  - Flowers for Guadalupe / flores para Guadalupe
UR  - http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1630792
ER  -