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MeXicana encounters : the making of social identities on the borderlands

Fregoso charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Her 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
eBook, English, ©2003
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2003
1 online resource (xix, 219 pages).
9780520937284, 9781417520282, 9780520229976, 9780520238909, 0520937287, 1417520280, 0520229975, 0520238907
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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