10. Hard Choices and Changing Roles among Mexican Migrant Campesinas

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
4. CONTRIBUTORS XI
5. A NOTE ON ETHNIC LABELS XIII
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. PART ONE. Acts of Domination / Acts of Resistance
8. 2. Sexual Violence in the Politics and Policies of Conquest: Amerindian Women and the Spanish Conquest of Alta California 15
9. 3. And, Yes . . . The Earth Did Part: On the Splitting of Chicana/o Subjectivity 34
10. 4. Speaking from the Margin: Uninvited Discourse on Sexuality and Power 57
11. PART TWO. Cultural Representations / Cultural Presentations
12. 5. La Tules of Image and Reality: Euro-American Attitudes and Legend Formation on a Spanish-Mexican Frontier 75
13. 6. "It Is My Last Wish That . . .": A Look at Colonial Nuevo Mexicanas through Their Testaments 91
14. 7. "Star Struck": Acculturation, Adolescence, and the Mexican American Woman, 1920-1950 109
15. 8. The Mother Motif in La Bamba and Boulevard Nights 130
16. PART THREE. Contested Domains: Economy and Family
17. 9. Gender, Class, and Households: Migration Patterns in Aguascalientes, Mexico 149
18. 10. Hard Choices and Changing Roles among Mexican Migrant Campesinas 168
19. 11. "In the Beginning He Wouldn't Lift Even a Spoon": The Division of Household Labor 181
20. PART FOUR. Social Reproduction: Institutional and "Uninstitutional" Lives
21. 12. Slipping through the Cracks: Dilemmas in Chicana Education 199
22. 13. Gender and the Life Course: A Case Study of Chicana Elderly 217
23. 14. Conclusion 232
24. INDEX 239