Feminism on the Border
Subtitle: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 9, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780520207332
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Feminism; Literary theory; Mexican-American Border Region; History; Caribbean & Latin American; United States; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Latin-American Spanish; Sociology; USA; History and criticism; American - Hispanic American; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; American fiction; Feminist; 20th century; Feminism and literature; Mexican American authors
First sentence: In this book I articulate my multiple locations as a Tejana, as a cultural worker who labors "outside in the teaching machine," to use a phrase by Gayatri Spiyak, who is an advocate of subaltern women.