“Unveiling Vulnerability: Discover the Hidden Layers of Feminism in Marianna Marlowe’s Captivating Memoir”
Summers in Lima, Peru, are spent with her cousins and extended family. There she learns that men can have two families, and she is to pity the woman whose man strays; and that a woman’s goals are to marry a handsome, rich man, have children and a large house to manage. While Marianne dreams of education and a career, her female cousins dream of marriage and good looks.
Her Peruvian grandmother believes a woman without a husband is not complete, and Marianne sees the more patriarchal views in Peru in the 1980s as though they were a generation behind her thinking.
