MeXicana encounters : the making of social identities on the borderlands
Charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. The author's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers fresh insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.
Print Book, English, ©2003
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2003
xix, 219 p. ; 24 cm.
9780520238909, 0520238907
318404897
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Toward a Planetary Civil Society 2. Cross-Border Feminist Solidarities 3. Gender, Multiculturalism, and the Missionary Position on the Borderlands 4. The Chicano Familia Romance 5. Familia Matters 6. "Fantasy Heritage": Tracking Latina Bloodlines 7. Haunted by Miscegenation 8. Ghosts of a Mexican Past Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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