meXicana Encounters (eBook)

The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands

Rosa Linda Fregoso (Autor)

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2003
238 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-93728-4 (ISBN)

Infos

meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers are the recent murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juarez; transborder feminist texts that deal with private, domestic forms of violence; how films like John Sayles's Lone Star re-center white masculinity; and the significance of la familia to the identity of Chicanas/os and how it can subordinate gender and sexuality to masculinity and heterosexual roles. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.12.2003
• Reihe/Serie: American Crossroads
• Reihe/Serie: American Crossroads
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: american borderlands • Chicanas • Chicano Studies • Ciudad Juarez • contemporary experience • Cultural Politics • cultural practices • Cultural Studies • Disappearances • Domestic violence • ethnographers • ethnography • family and identity • Feminism • feminists • Gender and Sexuality • gender roles • Gender Studies • latina experience • latinx studies • mexicana representation • mexicanas • mexicans • murders • Nonfiction • race issues • Social Identity • Social Justice • Social Studies • Symbolism • Transborder
• ISBN-10: 0-520-93728-7 / 0520937287
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-93728-4 / 9780520937284