A chance visit to Chicago led him to Cisneros's mother, a Mexican-American from a working class family that had lived in the United States for many generations, working mainly on railroads. Her father, a Mexican native from a family of means had traveled to the United States in search of adventure. Cisneros and her family were of the latter category, Mexican-Americans or Chicanos. Sandra Cisneros was born on Decemin a poor neighborhood of Chicago, populated mainly by Hispanic immigrants and hyphenated Americans. She charts the map that shows chicanas and chicanos, women and wives, sisters and servants, the possibilities of freedom. The woman who proudly proclaimed she is "nobody's mother and nobody's wife," is in fact the greatest caregiver of all.
Along the way she has collected numerous awards and critical acclaim. She escaped through language, writing her way out of that future. She watched as the women around her gave up and gave in, accepting lives of second class citizenship, beholden to their fathers, their brothers, their husbands, and their priests. Growing up a chicana in the poor barrios of Chicago, Cisneros knows these things well. In doing so,she speaks out against racism, sexism, poverty, and shame. I'm determined to fill a literary void," Cisneros told Jim Sagel of Publishers Weekly. "I'm trying to write the stories that haven't been written. Vintage Books, 1994.As the first Hispanic-American to receive a major publishing contract, Sandra Cisneros has provided a voice for she who had had none before, the Hispanic-American woman -or to use Cisneros' favored word -the chicana. Thus, the “Loose Woman” poem encourages women to practice self-expression and talk about equality. These words can be identified as a calling to break free from oppression, imposed behavior patterns, and judgment. The words that describe the author, such as “I’m an aim-well, sharp-tongued, and sharp-thinking” stick out for me as they mean that women need to speak and act to make their voiced loud (Cisneros 114). However, Cisneros promotes the struggle against oppressive rules in such an extravagant, vibrant, and personal way. She writes, “I’m la desperada, most wanted public enemy”, which shows that she understands that society does not accept her (Cisneros 114). The author uses a mix of English and Spanish words to better reflect her emotions.
In a world full of “stones and sticks” against females, the message of this poem is that it is possible to break social stereotypes and change thinking. This poem is about the perception and expected behaviors of women on the contrary to their feelings and happiness.
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