MeXicana encounters
Subtitle: the making of social identities on the borderlands
By: Rosa Linda Fregoso.
Series: American crossroads ;
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Mexican American women -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.; Women -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.; Women in popular culture -- Mexican-American Border Region.; Women in motion pictures.; Mexican American women -- Ethnic identity.; Group identity -- Mexican-American Border Region.; Popular culture -- Mexican-American Border Region.; Mexican-American Border Region -- Civilization.; Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.; Mexican-American Border Region -- Ethnic relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents:	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