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Telling to live : Latina feminist testimonios / the Latina feminist group, Luz del Alba Acevedo ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Latin America otherwise.
- Latin America otherwise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic American women--Social conditions--Anecdotes.
- Hispanic American women.
- Hispanic American feminists--Biography--Anecdotes.
- Hispanic American feminists.
- Sex discrimination against women--United States--Anecdotes.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- United States--Ethnic relations--Anecdotes.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (399 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An anthology of testimonials from Latina/Chicana feminists - some of whom are well known - which give insight into their personal life experiences and break barriers and assumptions.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Papelitos guardados : theorizing Latinidades through testimonio
- I. Genealogies of empowerment
- Certified organic intellectual / Aurora Levins Morales
- My father's hands / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz
- Vignettes of a working-class Puerto Rican girl in Brooklyn, New York / Celia Alvarez
- Silence begins at home / Patricia Zavella
- You speak Spanish because you are Jewish? / Rina Benmayor
- Getting there Cuando no hay camino / Norma E. Cantu
- Reflection and rebirth : the evolving life of a Latina academic / Iris Ofelia Lopez
- Mi primera amiguita : Carmelita / Gloria Holguin Cuadraz
- The house that Mama Biela built / Daisy Cocco De Filippis
- Lightning / Mirtha N. Quintanales
- My name is this story / Aurora Levins Morales
- Resisting the alchemy of erasure : journey to labor ideas / Clara Lomas
- Esta risa no es de loca / Caridad Souza
- A Escondidas : a Chicana feminist teacher who writes/a Chicana feminist writer who teaches / Norma E. Cantu
- Canto de mi madre/canto de mi padre / Ines Hernandez Avila
- Daughter of bootstrap / Luz del Alba Acevedo
- Beyond survival : a politics/poetics of Puerto Rican consciousness / Liza Fiol-Matta
- I can fly : of dreams and other nonfictions / Eliana Rivero
- II. Alchemies of erasure
- The Christmas present / Caridad Souza
- Snapshots from my daze in school / Celia Alvarez
- Point of departure / Mirtha N. Quintanales
- Another way to grow up Puerto Rican / Liza Fiol-Mata
- El beso / Ruth Behar
- The prize of a new Cadillac / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz
- La tra(d)icion / Latina anonima
- Between perfection and invisibility / Latina anonima
- Diary of La Llorona with a Ph.D. / Gloria Holguin Cuadraz
- Welcome to the ivory tower / Latina anonima
- I still don't know why / Latina anonima
- Lessons learned from an assistant professor / Gloria Holguin Cuadraz
- Don't you like being in the university? / Latina anonima
- Temporary Latina / Ruth Behar
- Dispelling the Sombras, grito mi nombre con rayos de luz / Ines Hernandex Avila
- Biting through / Latina anonima
- Sand from Varadero Beach / Ruth Behar
- Speaking among friends : who empowerment, whose resistance? / Luz del Alba Acevedo
- III. The body re/members
- Reading the body / Norma E. Cantu
- Missing body / Caridad Souza
- Malabareando/juggling / Liza Fiol-Matta
- Migraine/jaqueca / Norma E. Cantu
- The wart / Daisy Cocco De Filippis
- Why my ears aren't pierced / Ruth Behar
- Night terrors / Latina anonima
- La princesa / Latina anonima
- Forced by circumstance / Norma Alarcon
- Let me sleep / Latina anonima
- Depression / Mirtha N. Quintanales
- Desde el Divan : testimonios from the couch / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz
- Telling to live : devoro la mentira, resucitando mi ser / Ines Hernandez Avila
- IV. Passion, desires, and celebrations
- Shameless desire / Aurora Levins Morales
- La cosa / Ruth Behar
- Boleros / Eliana Rivero
- A working-class Bruja's fears and desires / Norma E. Cantu
- Aun / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz
- The names I used to call you/the names I do call you / Eliana Rivero
- Platanos and palms / Rina Benmayor
- Three penny opera or Eve's symphony in B minor / Daisy Cocco De Filippis
- Descubrimiento(s) / Celia Alvarez
- Entre nosotras / Latina anonima
- Pisco and cranberry / Eliana Rivero
- De lo que es amor, de lo que es vida / Ines Hernandez Avila
- Eating mango / Liza Fiol-Matta
- Everyday grace / Mirtha N. Quintanales
- Tenemos que seguir luchando / Patricia Zavella.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references ([357]-372).
- ISBN:
- 9786613063137
- 9781283063135
- 1283063131
- 9780822383284
- 0822383284
- OCLC:
- 245538712
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