Mythohistorical interventions : the Chicano movement and its legacies / Lee Bebout.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bebout, Lee

Series:

Critical American studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican American women--Ethnic identity.

Mexican American women.

Chicano movement.

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

Mexican American lesbians.

Social conditions.

United States.

Mexican American lesbians--Social conditions.

Mexican Americans--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]

Contents:

Introduction : mythohistorical interventions at the intersection of American studies and Chicana/o studies

Locating the mythohistorical : three tales in the struggle for hegemony

Hero making in el movimiento : Reies López Tijerina and the Chicano nationalist imaginary

Of mothers and revolucionarias : movement Chicanas fashioning a feminism of their own

Queer genealogies : Chicana lesbian feminism & the post-movement era

Conclusion : echoes of el movimiento and other mythohistorical interventions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816670864

0816670862

9780816670871

0816670870

OCLC:

657270803