Lopez, Josefina. Real Women have Curves. Woodstock, IL: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1996.
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7WlbfjcFog
The play introduces the main character Ana, a
Mexican American girl who comes from a blue-collar family. Ana has just
graduated from Beverly Hills High School and is being guided by her teacher and
mentor, Mr. Guzman to apply to Columbia University because he views her as a
talented and intelligent woman. However,
her mother desires for her to help her sister at the dressmaking factory. She
witnesses the injustices seen at the factory when the owners mistreat her
sister and underpay their employees. Ana takes a stand from her traditional
mother, Carmen and declares that they are women who deserve the same amount of
equal opportunities to succeed like everyone else. She breaks the traditional
ideas of having Hispanic women merely becoming housewives and workers at
sweatshops. Ana also embraces her body despite what her mother thinks or what
the fashion industry views as beauty. Ana opposes to confide to the social
norms established and seeks to find her true self.
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