MeXicana Encounters The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands

Name: MeXicana Encounters The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands
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ISBN: 9780520238909

ISBN-10: 0520238907

ISBN-13: 9780520238909

Edition: 2004

Authors: Rosa-Linda Fregoso

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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 Juaacute;rez; 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…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Toward a Planetary Civil Society



Cross-Border Feminist Solidarities



Gender, Multiculturalism, and the Missionary Position on the Borderlands



The Chicano Familia Romance



Familia Matters



"Fantasy Heritage": Tracking Latina Bloodlines



Haunted by Miscegenation



Ghosts of a Mexican Past


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index