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Title Telling to live : Latina feminist testimonios / the Latina feminist group, Luz del Alba Acevedo [and others]
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 378 pages)
Series Latin America otherwise
Latin America otherwise.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Papelitos guardados : theorizing Latinidades through testimonio -- I. Genealogies of empowerment -- Certified organic intellectual / Aurora Levins Morales -- My father's hands / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz -- Vignettes of a working-class Puerto Rican girl in Brooklyn, New York / Celia Alvarez -- Silence begins at home / Patricia Zavella -- You speak Spanish because you are Jewish? / Rina Benmayor -- Getting there Cuando no hay camino / Norma E. Cantú -- Reflection and rebirth : the evolving life of a Latina academic / Iris Ofelia López -- Mi primera amiguita : Carmelita / Gloria Holguín Cuádraz -- The house that Mamá Biela built / Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Lightning / Mirtha N. Quintanales -- My name is this story / Aurora Levins Morales -- Resisting the alchemy of erasure : journey to labor ideas / Clara Lomas -- Esta risa no es de loca / Caridad Souza -- A Escondidas : a Chicana feminist teacher who writes/a Chicana feminist writer who teaches / Norma E. Cantú -- Canto de mi madre/canto de mi padre / Inés Hernández Avila -- Daughter of bootstrap / Luz del Alba Acevedo -- Beyond survival : a politics/poetics of Puerto Rican consciousness / Liza Fiol-Matta -- I can fly : of dreams and other nonfictions / Eliana Rivero
II. Alchemies of erasure -- The Christmas present / Caridad Souza -- Snapshots from my daze in school / Celia Alvarez -- Point of departure / Mirtha N. Quintanales -- Another way to grow up Puerto Rican / Liza Fiol-Mata -- El beso / Ruth Behar -- The prize of a new Cadillac / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz -- La tra(d)ición / Latina anónima -- Between perfection and invisibility / Latina anónima -- Diary of La Llorona with a Ph. D. / Gloria Holguín Cuádraz -- Welcome to the ivory tower / Latina anónima -- I still don't know why / Latina anónima -- Lessons learned from an assistant professor / Gloria Holguín Cuádraz -- Don't you like being in the university? / Latina anónima -- Temporary Latina / Ruth Behar -- Dispelling the Sombras, grito mi nombre con rayos de luz / Inés Hernándex Avila -- Biting through / Latina anónima -- Sand from Varadero Beach / Ruth Behar -- Speaking among friends : who empowerment, whose resistance? / Luz del Alba Acevedo
III. The body re/members -- Reading the body / Norma E. Cantú -- Missing body / Caridad Souza -- Malabareando/juggling / Liza Fiol-Matta -- Migraine/jaqueca / Norma E. Cantú -- The wart / Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Why my ears aren't pierced / Ruth Behar -- Night terrors / Latina anónima -- La princesa / Latina anónima -- Forced by circumstance / Norma Alarcón -- Let me sleep / Latina anónima -- Depression / Mirtha N. Quintanales -- Desde el Diván : testimonios from the couch / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz -- Telling to live : devoro la mentira, resucitando mi ser / Inés Hernández Avila
IV. Passion, desires, and celebrations -- Shameless desire / Aurora Levins Morales -- La cosa / Ruth Behar -- Boleros / Eliana Rivero -- A working-class Bruja's fears and desires / Norma E. Cantú -- Aún / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz -- The names I used to call you/the names I do call you / Eliana Rivero -- Plátanos and palms / Rina Benmayor -- Three penny opera or Eve's symphony in B minor / Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Descubrimiento(s) / Celia Alvarez -- Entre nosotras / Latina anónima -- Pisco and cranberry / Eliana Rivero -- De lo que es amor, de lo que es vida / Inés Hernández Avila -- Eating mango / Liza Fiol-Matta -- Everyday grace / Mirtha N. Quintanales -- Tenemos que seguir luchando / Patricia Zavella
Summary An anthology of testimonials from Latina/Chicana feminists - some of whom are well known - which give insight into their personal life experiences and break barriers and assumptions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ([357]-372)
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Hispanic American women -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes
Hispanic American feminists -- Biography -- Anecdotes
Sex discrimination against women -- United States -- Anecdotes
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Ethnic relations
Hispanic American feminists
Hispanic American women -- Social conditions
Sex discrimination against women
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations -- Anecdotes
Subject United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Anecdotes
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Acevedo, Luz del Alba.
ISBN 9780822383284
0822383284
1283063131
9781283063135
9786613063137
6613063134