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Chicana sexuality and gender : cultural refiguring in literature, oral history, and art

Author
Blake, Debra J., 1955-
Title
Chicana sexuality and gender : cultural refiguring in literature, oral history, and art / Debra J. Blake.
Format
Book
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Description
xiii, 296 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
URL
<Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0814/2008013881.html
Uniform series
Latin America otherwise.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index.
Contents
  • The power of representation : history, memory, and the cultural refiguring of La Malinche's lineage
  • Chicana feminism : spirituality, sexuality, and Mexican goddesses re-membered
  • Las historias : sexuality, gender roles, and La Virgen de Guadalupe reconsidered
  • Cultural anxieties and truths : gender, nationalism, and La Llorona retellings
  • Reading dynamics of power : oral histories, feminist research, and the politics of location.
Summary
A comparative study of working-class and elite intellectual Mexican and Mexican American women that focuses on their sexuality and identity. Blake sees a continuum of Chicana feminist thinking, showing how both groups of women expand lifestyle choices and promote the well-being of women of Mexican origin or descent.
Kinsey subjects
Women. Women in literature. Women in art. Gender role identification--Female. Writers--Female.
ISBN
9780822342946 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822342944 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822343103 (pbk. : alk. paper) 082234310X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
160.48 B53 c4 2008
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute