CHAPTER 4 Reading from Ourselves: Identity and Hermeneutics among Mexican-American Feminists

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FOREWORD ix
4. INTRODUCTION xiii
5. PART I SOURCES, THOUGHT, AND PRAXIS OF LATINA FEMINIST INSIGHT
6. CHAPTER 1 Seeing Beauty within Torment: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Baroque in New Spain 3
7. CHAPTER 2 Prophesy Freedom: Puerto Rican Women’s Literature as a Source for Latina Feminist Theology 23
8. CHAPTER 3 Ana Castillo as Santera: Reconstructing Popular Religious Praxis 53
9. CHAPTER 4 Reading from Ourselves: Identity and Hermeneutics among Mexican-American Feminists 80
10. CHAPTER 5 Perception Matters: Pentecostal Latinas in Allentown, Pennsylvania 98
11. CHAPTER 6 Latina Activists: Toward an Inclusive Spirituality of Being in the World 114
12. PART II U.S. LATINA FEMINIST THEOLOGICAL INSIGHT
13. CHAPTER 7 Latina Feminist Theology: Central Features 133
14. CHAPTER 8 The Unnamed Woman: Justice, Feminists, and the Undocumented Woman 161
15. CHAPTER 9 Justice Crosses the Border: The Preferential Option for the Poor in the United States 177
16. CHAPTER 10 Ignored Virgin or Unaware Women: A Mexican-American Protestant Reflection on the Virgin of Guadalupe 204
17. CHAPTER 11 Pathways to a Mestiza Feminist Theology 217
18. CHAPTER 12 Notes Toward a ChicanaFeminist Epistemology (and Why It Is Important for Latina Feminist Theologies) 241
19. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 267
20. CONTRIBUTORS 283
21. INDEX 287