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    A Study Guide for Josefina Lopez's "Real Women Have Curves"
    A Study Guide for Josefina Lopez's "Real Women Have Curves"
    A Study Guide for Josefina Lopez's "Real Women Have Curves"
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    A Study Guide for Josefina Lopez's "Real Women Have Curves"

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    A Study Guide for Josefina Lopez's "Real Women Have Curves", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781410393517
    A Study Guide for Josefina Lopez's "Real Women Have Curves"

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      A Study Guide for Josefina Lopez's "Real Women Have Curves" - Gale

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      Real Women Have Curves

      Josefina López

      1992

      Introduction

      In her play Real Women Have Curves, Josefina Loόpez covers a lot of bases. It is a coming-of-age story, an immigrant story, and a family drama—though it also has many comic moments. As the protagonist Ana dreams of college and a writing career, her mother pressures her to slim down and find a man to marry; until that happens, she must work in her sister's sewing factory. As Ana and the other factory workers push to meet a big deadline, they talk about cultural standards of beauty and the changing role of women in society. Although Ana struggles under the pressures of family and tradition, by the end of the play she realizes how much she has learned from the women around her. Dramatic Publishing released an edition of the play in 1996 that is readily available. The dialogue contains frank discussions of sexual matters, making the play more suitable for older students.

      Author Biography

      LoόPez Was Born In San Luis Potosí, Mexico, On March 19, 1969. When She Was Five Years Old, Her Family Moved To America And Settled In Boyle Heights, A Neighborhood In East Los Angeles That Has A Mostly Mexican American, Workingclass Population. For Her First Thirteen Years In The United States, LoόPez Was Undocumented, Because The Entire Family Entered The Country Illegally. In 1987, She Was Granted Amnesty Under The Immigration Reform And Control Act. She Was Naturalized As A Us Citizen In 1995.

      Lόpez became interested in the arts as a teenager. She attended Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, majoring in theater, and was a member of the Young Playwrights Lab at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. While she was in high school, Lόpez was told by a favorite teacher that she would have to lose weight if she wanted to make it in Hollywood as an actress. After being given an assignment to write a scene depicting a relationship, Lόpez continued writing and completed her first play, Simply Maria, or the American Dream, at age seventeen. Although paying for school was difficult, Lόpez continued her studies after high school, graduating from Columbia College in 1993 and then completing her master of fine arts degree in screenwriting

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