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Chicana Feminisms
A Critical Reader
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Edited by:
Patricia Zavella
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English
Published/Copyright:
2003
About this book
An anthology of original essays from Chicana feminists which explores the complexities of life experiences of the Chicanas, such as class, generation, sexual orientation, age, language use, etc.
Author / Editor information
Gabriela F. Arredondo is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Aída Hurtado is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Women Speak Out on Sexuality and Identity.
Norma Klahn is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and coeditor of Las Nuevas Fronteras del Siglo XXI/New Frontiers of the 21st Century.
Olga Nájera-Ramírez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and coeditor of Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change.
Patricia Zavella is Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and coauthor of Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
“This remarkable collection of essays registers the efforts of Chicanas, against all odds, to document, imagine, and understand the complexity of their histories and experiences. Particularly impressive are the open-ended discussions between academics, artists, and writers. The essays brilliantly support the editors’ claim that the Chicanas have invented new forms and have intervened decisively in the debates on gender and ethnicity. Chicana Feminisms will be an essential reference for many years to come.”—Jean Franco, author of Critical Passions: Selected Essays
"Chicana Feminisms comes alive with theoretical and emotional responses from some of the most exciting thinkers in Chicana feminist social thought. This book is a truly momentous achievement. It will stand the test of time." —Laura I. Rendón, author of Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity
“The editors of Chicana Feminisms boldly publish Spanish and English texts, a significant move during a period of intense Xenophobia in the United States as anti-Mexican, anti-bilinguilism . . . The work is thoroughly transdisciplinary in its organization. The anthology is best read front to back in order to hear the method and theory of interlingual, intradialogic tracks . . . [each] systematically engaging a process of dialogue and debate.”
-- Karen Mary Davalos Feminist Studies
“This is a book that would promote lively discussion in advanced undergraduate and graduate classrooms, particularly because of its applicability to various legacies of activism and scholarship by feminists of color. It is refreshing to see scholars explicitly address the multiplicity of Chicana identities, inviting difference and celebrating regional, racial, sexual, generational, and other variations of Chicanisma.”
-- Gaye Theresa Johnson NWSA Journal
"Chicana Feminisms opens possibilities for anyone who is interested in reading about the ways in which feministas analyze their social worlds. . . . As no others before them, these writers capture the daily lives of Mexican and Mexican-descent working-class mujeres, embedding their narratives in the tensions and contradictions of social, political, and cultural forces that constrain and shape lives."
-- Josephine Mendez-Negrete San Antonio Express-News
"Thoughtful dialogues abound throughout the scholarship, poetry, and testimonials here. Not only does the book affirm the history and resiliency of feminist thought among Hispanic women, but each essay ultimately serves to remind us all of Hurtado's succinct assertion that 'to love oneself as a woman is a revolutionary act.'"
-- Maria Elena Buszek Bust
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Chicana Feminisms at the Crossroads: Disruptions in Dialogue
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Cartohistografía: Continente de una voz / Cartohistography: One Voice’s Continent
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Response: Translating Herstory: A Reading of and Responses to Elba Rosario Sánchez
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Contested Histories: Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Chicana Feminisms, and Print Culture in the Chicano Movement, 1968–1973
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Response: Chicana Print Culture and Chicana Studies: A Testimony to the Development of Chicana Feminist Culture
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The Writing of Canícula: Breaking Boundaries, Forms
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Response: Sad Movies Make Me Cry
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Literary (Re)Mappings: Autobiographical (Dis)Placements by Chicana Writers
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Response: (Re)Mapping mexicanidades: (Re)Locating Chicana Writings and Translation Politics
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Chronotope of Desire: Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams
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Response: The Lessons of Chicana Lesbian Fictions and Theories
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Unruly Passions: Poetics, Performance, and Gender in the Ranchera Song
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Response: . . . Y volver a sufrir: Nuevos acercamientos al melodrama
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Translation of Response: . . . And to Suffer Again: New Approaches to Melodrama
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Talkin’ Sex: Chicanas and Mexicanas Theorize about Silences and Sexual Pleasures
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Response: Questions of Pleasure
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Underground Feminisms: Inocencia’s Story
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Response: Grounding Feminisms through La Vida de Inocencia
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Domesticana: The Sensibility of Chicana Rasquachismo
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Response: Invention as Critique: Neologisms in Chicana Art Theory
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Reproduction and Miscegenation on the Borderlands: Mapping the Maternal Body of Tejanas
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Response: The Sterile Cuckoo Racha: Debugging Lone Star
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Anzaldúa’s Frontera: Inscribing Gynetics
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Response: Inscribing Gynetics in the Bolivian Andes
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Contributors
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Index
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July 9, 2003
eBook ISBN:
9780822384359
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408
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