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Analyzing the "in-between" spaces in Moraga’s writing where race, gender, class, and sexuality intermingle, this first book-length study of Moraga’s work focuses on her writing of the body and related material practices of sex, desire, and pleasure.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Title Abbreviations
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Introduction: Chicana Lesbian Writing and the Intersection of Cultural and Critical Practices
  2. pp. xiii-xvii
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  1. Part I. The Body
  1. 1. (De)constructing the Lesbian Body
  2. pp. 3-22
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  1. Part II. The Plays
  2. pp. 23-30
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  1. 2. Giving Up the Ghost Feminist Theory and the Staging of Mestiza Desire
  2. pp. 31-47
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  1. 3. Shadow of a Man: Touching the Wound in Order to Heal
  2. pp. 48-63
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  1. 4. "The Miracle People": Heroes and Saints and ContemporaryChicano Theater
  2. pp. 64-82
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  1. Part III. The Written Identity
  1. 5. "I Long to Enter You Like a Temple'': Sex, Salvation, and Shamanism
  2. pp. 85-106
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  1. 6. Whiteness in The Last Generation: The Nation, the "Half-breed," and the Queer
  2. pp. 107-126
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  1. 7. Writing the Lesbian Mother: "Waiting in the Wings"
  2. pp. 127-158
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  1. Appendix. A Chronology of Major Works by Cherríe Moraga
  2. pp. 159-160
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 161-178
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  1. Works Cited
  2. pp. 179-188
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 189-199
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