Femmenism and the Mexican woman intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska
Subtitle: boob lit
By: Emily Hind
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Breaking feminist waves
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780230104464
Subjects: Women intellectuals; Feminism and literature; Mexican literature; History and criticism; Feminist criticism; Women authors; Women and literature; Mexican Women authors; Anti-feminism; Identity; Women
Other titles: Boob lit; Feminism and the Mexican woman intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska
Description: "There is a large portion of young women in both US and Mexican university classrooms today who do not self-identify as feminists. Hind makes steps to correct this and draws on poetry, short stories, plays, novels, photographs, personal correspondence, advertising, and interviews to make visible the anti-feminine tendencies in femenism and to imagine a femmenism that will appeal to the next generation of women"--Provided by publisher.

"From poetry, short stories, plays, novels, photographs, personal correspondence, advertising, and interviews, Boob Lit. draws on both well-known and nearly forgotten materials to make visible the anti-feminine tendencies in femenism and to imagine a femmenism that might appeal to the startling numbers of young women in US and Mexican university classrooms today who do not self-identify as feminists. Catwoman, the cabrona, the diva-lectual, Barbie, the compulsory asexual, the clothes mind, the Boob, and the "beard" are just some of the swishy responses that Boob Lit. proposes as a response to the metonymic threat* of having boobs. *(Having boobs might make you one.)"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction * Your Maternity Or Your Mind: False Choices for Mexican Woman Intellectuals * Asexuality and the Woman Writer: Queering a Compliant Castellanos * Amor, Garro, and Rivas Mercado as Diva-lectuals * Poniatowska as Bearded Lady * On Barbie, the Boob, and Loaeza.