Format:
Online-Ressource (xix, 219 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520238907
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0520229975
Series Statement:
American crossroads 12
Content:
meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers are the recent murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juárez; transborder feminist texts that deal with private, domestic forms of violence; how films like John Sayles's Lone Star re-center white masculinity; and the significance of la familia to the identity of Chicanas/os and how it can subordi
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index
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CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1. Toward a Planetary Civil Society; 2. Cross-Border Feminist Solidarities; 3. Gender, Multiculturalism, and the Missionary Position on the Borderlands; 4. The Chicano Familia Romance; 5. Familia Matters; 6. "Fantasy Heritage": Tracking Latina Bloodlines; 7. Haunted by Miscegenation; 8. Ghosts of a Mexican Past; Epilogue; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520238909
Additional Edition:
Print version meXicana Encounters : The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands
Language:
English
