Ecological borderlands : body, nature, and spirit in Chicana feminism / Christina Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Christina, 1979- author.

Series:

National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois first book prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecofeminism--Mexican-American Border Region.

Ecofeminism.

Mexican American women.

Women--Mexican-American Border Region.

Women.

Women and the environment--Mexican-American Border Region.

Women and the environment.

Environmental justice--Mexican-American Border Region.

Environmental justice.

Feminism.

Mexican Americans--Study and teaching.

Mexican Americans.

North America--Mexican-American Border Region.

Physical Description:

xii, 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]

Summary:

"This project focuses on environmental practices among Mexican-American women and offers a rethinking of ecofeminism from the standpoint of Chicana feminists. Christina Holmes examines ecological themes across film, literature, murals and other visual art, Chicano nationalist activism, and contemporary direct action organization and presents how Chicana artists, activists, and scholars craft alternative models for ecofeminist praxis. Drawing on debates central to earlier ecofeminist work, Holmes analyzes issues around embodiment, women's connections to nature, and the place of spirituality in ecofeminist philosophy and practice. Chicana environmentalism provides pathways to insights in decolonization by linking social and ecological justice outside of a narrow framework, and Holmes seeks to explore the challenges to debates in the canon of ecofeminist literature to develop a more inclusive model of environmental feminism to alleviate some of the biases in Western feminism. Close readings of theoretical work; careful elaborations of ecological narratives in Chicana cultural productions; histories of land, water, and work rights struggles in the Southwest; and a detailed description of an activist exemplar of Chicana eco-feminist practices all work in tandem to underscore the importance of living with feminist commitment in body, nature, and spirit. Chicana Environmentalisms demonstrates how Chicana feminists have actively and materially stretched themselves into coalitions with human, nature, and spirit others, and these acts underscore the role of agency in Chicana ecofeminist work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Borderlands Environmentalism: Historiography in the Midst of Category Confusion 25

2 Misrecognition, Metamorphosis, and Maps in Chicana Feminist Cultural Production 51

3 Allegory, Materiality, and Agency in Amalia Mesa-Bains's Altar Environments 75

4 Body/Landscape/Spirit Relations in Senorita Extraviada: Cinematic Deterritorializations and the Limits of Audience Literacy 97

5 Building Green Community at the Border: Feminist and Ecological Consciousness at the Women's Intercultural Center 121.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Holmes, Christina, 1979- author. Ecological borderlands.

ISBN:

9780252040542

0252040546

9780252082016

025208201X

OCLC:

946905337