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MeXicana encounters : the making of social identities on the borderlands / Rosa Linda Fregoso.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fregoso, Rosa Linda.
- Series:
- American crossroads ; 12.
- American crossroads ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican American women--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Mexican American women.
- Women--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women in popular culture--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Women in popular culture.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Mexican American women--Ethnic identity.
- Group identity--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Group identity.
- Popular culture--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Popular culture.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Civilization.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 subordinate gender and sexuality to masculinity and heterosexual roles. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612762963
- 9781282762961
- 1282762966
- 9780520937284
- 0520937287
- 9781597347464
- 1597347469
- OCLC:
- 475929565
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