Eva Perón

• One of the most difficult things to decide about Evita is whether or not she was a feminist. She did subjugate her own beliefs to Juan's, but I do not believe that she did that simply because he was a man, rather because she believed in what he had to say. Her indepenedence always strikes me as her most feminist aspect, but then she states that a proper woman should be at home. Maybe the problem is that I am positing my own modern view on her, when that is impossible; however, feminism did exist, but the world had not seen the Second Wave that rose in the 60s.
• One thing that I do not understand is the treatment of her body. I understand what she represented, especially to the proletariat, but I do not understand the fetishization of it. Perhaps that is my own ethnocentric view, but I find it morbid.
  
• One thing that I do believe is that Evita definitely was after the bourgeoisie. This is especially evident in her frequent criticisms of the class, as well as her assumption of the role of the charity organization that was typically reserved for high-class women. Not that I think that there is anything wrong with that, but I do agree with some of the Black Myth that if she would have toned down her rhetoric, Perón would have been more successful in Argentine politics.
  
• The Revolutionary Eva was the only version of her that I could bring myself to agree with. I believe that she herself truly identified with the proletariat, but perhaps not the extent that they believed. She seemed to view the world in Marxist terms, despite the fact that she was most assuredly not a Marxist.