Chicana sexuality and gender : cultural refiguring in literature, oral history, and art
Debra J. Blake
Bok Engelsk 2008
| Originaltittel | [ Chicana sexuality and gender .] Engelsk
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| Omfang | xiii, 296 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | The power of representation : history, memory, and the cultural refiguring of La Malinche's lineage -- Chicana feminism : spirituality, sexuality, and Mexican goddesses re-membered -- Las historias : sexuality, gender roles, and La Virgen de Guadalupe reconsidered -- Cultural anxieties and truths : gender, nationalism, and La Llorona retellings -- Reading dynamics of power : oral histories, feminist research, and the politics of location.. - A comparative study of working-class and elite intellectual Mexican and Mexican American women that focuses on their sexuality and identity. Blake sees a continuum of Chicana feminist thinking, showing how both groups of women expand lifestyle choices and promote the well-being of women of Mexican origin or descent.. - "Since the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked iconic Mexican cultural symbols such as mother earth goddesses and La Llorona (the Wailing Woman of Mexican folklore), re-imagining them as powerful female figures. After reading the works of Chicana writers who created bold, powerful, and openly sexual female characters, Debra J. Blake wondered how everyday Mexican American women would characterize their own lives in relation to the writers’ radical reconfigurations of female sexuality and gender roles. To find out, Blake gathered oral histories from working-class and semiprofessional U.S. Mexicanas. In Chicana Sexuality and Gender, she compares the self-representations of these women with fictional and artistic representations by academic-affiliated, professional intellectual Chicana writers and visual artists, including Alma M. López and Yolanda López."
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| Emner | Feminism - United States.
Mexican American women artists Mexican American women authors Mexican American women Vis mer... Mexican American women - Attitudes.
Mexican American women - Ethnic identity. Mexican American women - Sexual behavior. kvinner meksikanske meksikansk-amerikanske holdninger sex seksualitet etnisitet identitet feminisme Cupidosamlingen Mexico USA intervjuer |
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| ISBN | 0822342944. - 082234310X. - 9780822342946. - 9780822343103
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