Forged under the Sun/Forjada bajo el Sol The Life of Maria Elena Lucas

Name: Forged under the Sun/Forjada bajo el Sol The Life of Maria Elena Lucas
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ISBN: 9780472064328

ISBN-10: 0472064320

ISBN-13: 9780472064328

Edition: N/A

Authors: Maria E. Lucas, Fran Leeper Buss

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List price: $18.95
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 8/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction



The Making of a Farm Worker Woman


Prologue: Birth of a Metaphor



A Child of Promise



Girlhood in the Northern Fields



In the Back of the Class



Take Your Pleadings to the Lord



Tamed by the Monkey Demon



Coming of Age: Shame and Terror



The Child Weds: Learning to Think like a Married Woman



Motherhood and Misery



Caretaker of the Extended Family



Opportunity and Betrayal



Committed and Female within the Farm Worker Movement



On Her Own: Life as a Single Parent



The Hardships of the North



Everything Shall Come to Pass: The Loss of Children



A Sacred Call to Action



To Live on Our Feet: Organizing the People



"Nosotros Venceremos"



Exhaustion and Retreat



Mujeres Valientes: Union Organizing for FLOC



Retrenchment in Texas



Yellow Rain



The 1988 Campaign: Commitment, Disappointment, and Resignation



Contemporary Border Life, Self-Expression, and Religious and Political Action and Theory



Life among the Defeated



A Different Madre de Cristo: Changing the Roles of Males and Females



On the Wings of the Black Eagle: The Creative Impulse



As the Sun Sets and the Beast Falls: The Creation of the Third Testament


Epilogue


Appendix