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Gender on the borderlands : the Frontiers reader / edited by Antonia Castaäneda ; with Susan H. Armitage, Patricia Hart, and Karen Weathermon.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican American women--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Mexican American women.
- Women immigrants--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Women immigrants.
- Mexican American women--Mexican-American Border Region--Intellectual life.
- Sex role--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Sex role.
- Mexican American arts.
- Intellectual life.
- Social conditions.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic relations.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Intellectual life.
- Mexican American arts--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexican American women--Texas--San Antonio.
- San Antonio (Tex.)--Social conditions.
- San Antonio (Tex.).
- Texas--San Antonio.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Gender on the Borderlands captures the intense, complex, and gendered experience of those living along the barbwire borderlands of Mexico and the United States. Through scholarship, testimonials, oral histories, songs, poetry, and art, the contributors reclaim the borderlands from the distortions and violence of "official" history and continue the recovery of a gendered Chicana/ Chicano history begun by Gloria Anzaldua in Borderlands/La Frontera more than twenty years ago.
- Both noted and new scholars reweave the fabric of collective, family, and individual history with a legacy of agency and activism in the borderlands in these twenty-one original selections. Contributors explore themes of homeland, sexuality, language, violence, colonialism, and political resistance within the most recent frameworks of Chicana/Chicano inquiry. Art as social critique, culture as a human right, labor activism, racial plurality, Indigenous knowledge, and strategies of decolonization all vitalize these selections edited by one of the country's most respected historians of the borderlands, Antonia Castaneda. From Aztec cosmology to globalization, Gender on the Borderlands unites the past with the present and the future to reclaim and transform the gendered, transnational domain along the Mexico-U.S. border.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Gender on the Borderlands / Antonia Castaneda ix
- Part I Claiming
- "There is great good in returning": A Testimonio from the Borderlands / Yolanda Chavez Leyva 1
- An Aztec Two-Spirit Cosmology: Re-sounding Nahuatl Masculinities, Elders, Femininities, and Youth / Gabriel S. Estrada 10
- Part 2 Contextualizing
- Gender on the Borderlands: Re-textualizing the Classics / Deena J. Gonzalez 15
- Docile Children and Dangerous Revolutionaries: The Racial Hierarchy of Manliness and the Bisbee Deportation of 1917 / Katherine Benton-Cohen 30
- Transborder Discourse: The Articulation of Gender in the Borderlands in the Early Twentieth Century / Clara Lomas 51
- Part 3 Revisioning, Performing, Liberating
- La Cultura, la Comunidad, la Familia, y la Libertad / Graciela I. Sanchez 75
- Performance Artist Maria Elena Gaitan: Mapping a Continent without Borders (Epics of Gente Atravesada, Traviesa, y Entremetida) / Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez 75
- Borderlands Critical Subjectivity in Recent Chicana Art / Judith L. Huacuja 104
- Part 4 Excavating
- Queering the Borderlands: The Challenges of Excavating the Invisible and Unheard / Emma Perez 122
- Rasgos asiaticos / Virginia Grise 132
- Only Strong Women Stayed: Women Workers and the National Floral Workers Strike, 1968-1969 / Priscilla Falcon 140
- Part 5 Living San Antonio
- Una Historia de Una de Muchas Marias / Maria Antonietta Berriozabal 155
- Rosita Fernandez: La Rosa de San Antonio / Deborah R. Vargas 168
- Esperanza v. City of San Antonio: Politics, Power, and Culture / Amy Kastely 185
- Carolina Munguia and Emma Tenayuca: The Politics of Benevolence and Radical Reform / Gabriela Gonzalez 200
- Maria and Emma / Maria Antonietta Berriozabal 230
- La Pasionaria (poetry) / Carmen Tafolla 233
- Mujeres de San Antonio: Murals of Emma Tenayuca, Corazones de la Comunidad, and Rosita Fernandez (art) / Theresa A. Ybanez 237
- Part 6 Globalizing
- Globalization and Its Discontents: Exposing the Underside / Evelyn Hu-DeHart 244
- Buscando La Vida: Mexican Immigrant Women's Memories of Home, Yearning, and Border Crossings / Maria de la Luz Ibarra 261
- Inmensa Fe en la Victoria: Social Justice through Education / Anita Tijerina Revilla 282.
- Notes:
- "Originally published as a double issue of Frontiers : a journal of women studies 24, nos. 2-3 (2003)."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1897 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780803259867
- 0803259867
- OCLC:
- 123029135
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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