Chicana movidas : new narratives of activism and feminism in the movement era / edited by Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, Maylei Blackwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Espinoza, Dionne, editor.

Cotera, María Eugenia, 1964- editor.

Blackwell, Maylei, 1969- editor.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American women.

Women political activists--United States--History--20th century.

Women political activists.

Feminism--United States--History--20th century.

Feminism.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 467 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2018.

Summary:

This groundbreaking anthology brings together generations of Chicana scholars and activists to offer the first wide-ranging account of women's organizing, activism, and leadership in the Chicano Movement.

With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays in Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era demonstrate how Chicanas enacted a new kind of politica at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and developed innovative concepts, tactics, and methodologies that in turn generated new theories, art forms, organizational spaces, and strategies of alliance. These are the technologies of resistance documented in Chicana Movidas, a volume that brings together critical biographies of Chicana activists and their bodies of work; essays that focus on understudied organizations, mobilizations, regions, and subjects; examinations of emergent Chicana archives and the politics of collection; and scholarly approaches that challenge the temporal, political, heteronormative, and spatial limits of established Chicano movement narratives. Charting the rise of a field of knowledge that crosses the boundaries of Chicano studies, feminist theory, and queer theory, Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era offers a transgenerational perspective on the intellectual and political legacies of early Chicana feminism.

Contents:

Introduction : movements, movimientos, and movidas / María Cotera, Maylei Blackwell, and Dionne Espinoza

Part I. Hallway movidas. Francisca Flores, the league of Mexican American women, and the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional, 1958-1975 / Anna NietoGomez

Mujeres Bravas : how Chicanas shaped the feminist agenda at the National IWY Conference in Houston, 1977 / Martha P. Cotera

"Women need to find their voice" : Latinas speak out in the midwest, 1972 / Leticia Wiggins

"It's not a natural order" : religion and the emergence of Chicana feminism in the Cursillo movement in San Jose / Susana L. Gallardo

Many roads, one path : a testimonio of Gloria E. Anzaldúa / Maylei Blackwell

Part II. Home-making movidas. La causa de los pobres : Alicia Escalante's lived experiences of poverty and the struggle for economic justice / Rosie C. Bermudez

Women who make their own worlds : the life and work of Ester Hernández / Maylei Blackwell

Feminista frequencies : Chicana radio activism in the Pacific Northwest / Monica De La Torre

Excavating the Chicano movement : Chicana feminism, mobilization, and leadership at El Centro de la Raza, 1972-1979 / Michael D. Aguirre

The space in between : exploring the development of Chicana feminist thought in central Texas / Brenda Sendejo

Visions of utopia while living in occupied Aztlán / Osa Hidalgo de la Riva and Maylei Blackwell

Part III. Movidas of crossing. Forging a black-brown movement : Chicana and African American women organizing for welfare rights in Los Angeles / Alejandra Marchevsky

"Tu reata es mi espada" : Elizabeth Sutherland's Chicana formation / Annemarie Perez

"La raza en Canada" : San Diego Chicana activists, the Indochinese Women's Conference of 1971, and third world womanism / Dionne Espinoza

María Jiménez : reflexiones on traversing multiple fronteras in the south / Samantha Rodriguez and Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal

De campesina a internacionalista : a journey of encuentros y desencuentros / Olga Talamante

Part IV. Memory movidas. Unpacking our mothers' libraries : practices of Chicana memory before and after the digital turn / María Cotera

Refocusing Chicana international feminism : photographs, postmemory, and political trauma / Marisela R. Chávez

La mariposa de oro : the journey of an advocate / Elena Gutiérrez and Virginia Martínez

My deliberate pursuit of freedom / Deanna Romero

Manifesto de memoria : (re)living the movement without blinking / Inés Hernández-Avila.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-431) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781477315583

1477315586

9781477315590

1477315594

OCLC:

1007495164

Publisher Number:

40028301096