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The fundamental functions of women as wife and mother have widely been accepted in the cultures with European and Christian influence like ours. In this way, women have had to find the sense of their lives in the service to others. When dealing with married women the roles are followed as such; they offer pleasure with their bodies and they take care of their companion, as well as being dedicated as a main priority, to taking care of the children and the family possessions. But, although it is certain that in the marriage they fulfill the intentions assigned by society and their religion, the truth is that there are some women who choose not to marry, but still making that decision they must fulfill those two aims, in order to achieve this, the receiving subjects change. The nuns, for example, in their congregations must have Christ as an “ideal” husband, as well as carrying out their functions as mothers, with those whom they take care of or educate: patients or students. In each function that these nuns carry out, the services to others and their own justification of being a woman is implied. In the case of the Work of God, Work or Opus Dei, a catholic religious institution, women are dedicated to sanctifying themselves in their daily activities, but not like nuns, but as lay dedicated to God. The differences are based on the fact that they must work, are self-sufficient and avoid a nun—like aspect due to their personal appearance of women of middle-class high, dressed elegantly, with a good bourgeois taste, and in addition, lower class women—the maids—who dress according to their class, but take into consideration the tone. Our women are denominated as being in a long term contract; the poor women add the adjective of aids. In order to be constructed as invisible women there are special schools that shape them in the opus dei spirituality, which demands that they assume their peculiar femininity to be at the service of the masculine members of their religious community.
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Entrevistas
Alfonsina Ramírez Paulín. 1995, 1996 y 2005 en la ciudad de México.
Antonio Roqueñí, noviembre de 1996 en la ciudad de México.
Páginas web
http://www.UP.mx/rama.PAP?fdoc
http://www.opusdei.es/art.Phh?p=6100
