In this Book
- meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: American Crossroads
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 Juárez; 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.
Table of Contents
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- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- pp. xi-13
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. xvii-xix
- 4. The Chicano Familia Romance
- pp. 71-90
- 5. Familia Matters
- pp. 91-102
- 7. Haunted by Miscegenation
- pp. 126-147
- 8. Ghosts of a Mexican Past
- pp. 148-168
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 199-209
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520937284
Related ISBN(s)
9780520238909
MARC Record
OCLC
55749513
Pages
238
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No