Chicana sexuality and gender : cultural refiguring in literature, oral history, and art / Debra J. Blake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blake, Debra J., 1955-

Series:

Latin America otherwise.

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Latin America otherwise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American women--Attitudes.

Mexican American women.

Mexican American women--Sexual behavior.

Mexican American women--Ethnic identity.

Mexican American women--Interviews.

Mexican American women authors--Interviews.

Mexican American women authors.

Mexican American women artists--Interviews.

Mexican American women artists.

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A study of working class and elite intellectual Mexican and Mexican American women that focuses on their sexuality and identity, particularly their identification with four primary Mexican female cultural symbols: La Malinche, Aztec goddesses, the Virgin

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613062147

9781283062145

1283062143

9780822381228

0822381222

OCLC:

776668454