Title The woman in the zoot suit : gender, nationalism, and the cultural politics of memory / Catherine S. Ramirez

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 229 pages) : illustrations Series E-Duke books scholarly collection Contents Introduction : a genealogy of vendidas -- Domesticating the pachuca -- Black skirts, dark slacks, and brown knees : pachuca style and spectacle -- During World War II-- Saying "nothin'" : pachucas and the languages of resistance -- La pachuca and the excesses of family and nation -- Epilogue : homegirls then and now, from the home front to the frontline Summary Recovers the neglected history of young Mexican American women zoot-suiters in wartime Los Angeles and explains their absence from Chicano movement narratives Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-223) 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 Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Mexican American women -- California -- Los Angeles -- Ethnic identity Mexican American women -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions Mexican American women -- History -- 20th century Mexican American women -- Social conditions Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Mexican American women Mexican American women -- Ethnic identity Mexican American women -- Social conditions Chicana California -- Los Angeles Los Angeles, Calif. Los Angeles <Calif.> Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2008041777 ISBN 9780822388647 0822388642

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