Chicana sexuality and gender
Subtitle: cultural refiguring in literature, oral history, and art
By: Debra J. Blake.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780822342946; 9780822343103
Subjects: Mexican American women -- Attitudes; Mexican American women -- Sexual behavior; Mexican American women -- Ethnic identity; Mexican American women -- Interviews; Mexican American women authors -- Interviews; Mexican American women artists -- Interviews; Feminism -- United States
Genres: Interviews.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The power of representation: history, memory, and the cultural refiguring of La Malinche's lineage; title: Chicana feminism: spirituality, sexuality, and Mexican goddesses re-membered; title: Las historias: sexuality, gender roles, and La Virgen de Guadalupe reconsidered; title: Cultural anxieties and truths: gender, nationalism, and La Llorona retellings; title: Reading dynamics of power: oral histories, feminist research, and the politics of location.