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Author Blake, Debra J., 1955-

Title Chicana sexuality and gender : cultural refiguring in literature, oral history, and art / Debra J. Blake
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages) : illustrations
Series Latin America otherwise
Latin America otherwise.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject 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
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
Feminism
Mexican American women
Mexican American women artists
Mexican American women -- Attitudes
Mexican American women authors
Mexican American women -- Ethnic identity
Mexican American women -- Sexual behavior
Feminismus
Ethnische Identität
Literatur
Geschlechterrolle
Geschlechtsidentität
Volkskultur
Mündliche Überlieferung
Kulturelle Identität
Chicana
United States
Genre/Form Interviews
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008013881
ISBN 9780822381228
0822381222
1283062143
9781283062145
9786613062147
6613062146