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9780520238909

Mexicana Encounters

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520238909

  • ISBN10:

    0520238907

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-11-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

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 approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.

Author Biography

Rosa Linda Fregoso is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi
PREFACE xiii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
1. Toward a Planetary Civil Society 1(29)
2. Cross-Border Feminist Solidarities 30(18)
3. Gender, Multiculturalism, and the Missionary Position on the Borderlands 48(23)
4. The Chicano Familia Romance 71(20)
5. Familia Matters 91(12)
6. "Fantasy Heritage": Tracking Latina Bloodlines 103(23)
7. Haunted by Miscegenation 126(22)
8. Ghosts of a Mexican Past 148(21)
Epilogue 169(2)
NOTES 171(28)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 199(12)
INDEX 211

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