The Youngest Doll

A gentle girl sacrificed for years has unexpectedly avenged her talent to make a life-size doll full of honey. "Youngest doll" based on family anecdotes is an amazing literary expression of Rosario Ferré's feminism and social concerns. This is the first story of the collection originally published in Spanish in 1976.

"The youngest doll" depicts the post-operative Puerto Rican society from a women's point of view, showing the impact of industrialization and the accompanying materialism on specific women's lives. It uses well-known grammar practices. However, as Heinrick Ibsen's play The Doll House does, instead of women's dominant dolls Ferré's dolls are made by women and ultimately controlled. In addition to promoting women's empowerment, the stories also point out the adverse effects of industrialization and colonization on all Puerto Rico. Ferre's story depicts the collapsing society of modern Puerto Rico. Sugarcane aristocracy is "extinct" in society, it is deeply divided and confused by its numerous influences in history. For centuries the Spaniards have dominated Puerto Rico and have had a profound impact on language, food, culture and religion.

Among the 'youngest dolls', Filay resembles folklore in many ways, borrowing from the reality of Puerto Rico society and revolutionizing ideas to conquer 'evil' principles and materialism I wrote a wonderful story I told you. It is written in Spanish (not in English, it is not an official educational language from 1898 to 1948). The story of Ferre can be seen as a traditional folk tale, said by women in the late 20th century. This type of very familiar society

At the time, the "youngest doll" was written (1976), the women's movement in the United States has been firmly established, the impact is felt on a global scale. In 1967 the Supreme Court (Roe v. Wade) legalized abortion and some believed that abortion was a major victory for women 's rights. Women share stories, rewrite history from their own perspective, and influence political and cultural changes through printed text. Ferre reads essays by Western feminists including Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan. By sharing a revolutionary spirit, Ferre disseminated a woman's rights message in Puerto Rico in the 1970's through works like "the youngest doll". Fiction to the environment - The two previous privileges are clearly absent in their patriarchal society