For this week’s blog post, I decided to read Leila Guerriero’s short story titled, I Like Being a Woman (And I Hate Hysterical Women). I thought this was an interesting read because she brought up a different approach to a different lens of sexuality and womanhood on a patriarchal society such as Argentina. In this short story she speaks of certain encounters with specific people in her life who have provided different interpretations and definitions of sexuality and womanhood. These encounters were from family members, friends, strangers, and her present significant other, Diego. The table for the edges (image below) shows the people she encountered in the order that she talks about them in her short story. I also wanted the table to show the age in which this encounter occurs so that it provides further analysis as to what effects this may have made on her.
The table also allows you to identify that the relationships weren’t necessarily reciprocated. The reason for this was because these encounters showed that these individuals spoke to her to provide a definition of what she should be as a young girl going through all of womanhood’s developments. In relation to Paola and the strange boys, it reflects a relationship that occurred as Paola was insulted by the boys, but Leila took on a definition from this encounter. The network graph below shows this more clearly:
Leila is in the center as the central node, or hub of this network graph as she is the one to whom these individuals or nodes, defined these terms to. The limits of this network graph is that it would be better if we could change the colors of the nodes. I would have wanted to color code the nodes to differentiate between the encounters that were positive and those that were negative. This could also be indicated by changing the sizes of the nodes or showing arrows or pointers going to one another, rather than just from Leila to the nodes. For social network graphs, I have had better outcomes when it is done in free form. Meaning that I make the nodes and edges and hubs from scratch with my own legend (image below of an old network graph I did).
-Karla Contreras