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Author Méndez-Negrete, Josie, author.

Title Las hijas de Juan : daughters betrayed / Josie Méndez-Negrete
Edition Revised edition
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2006
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 204 pages)
Series Latin America otherwise : Languages, Empires, Nations
Latin America otherwise.
Contents Prologue: Sin padre -- México lindo y querido = Dearest and beloved Mexico -- A donde iran los muertos? Quién sabe a donde iran = Where will the dead go? Who knows where they will go -- Buscando abrigo y no lo encontraran = Searching for shelter they will never find -- Que lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido = So far from the land that gave me birth -- She kept her head in a jar by the door = Mantuvo su cabeza en el jarrón junto a la puerta -- Epilogue: Purging the Skeletons, Bone by Bone -- Songs Quoted in Text
Summary Mexican American author Josie Méndez-Negrete's memoir of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father
Notes "First edition published 2002."
English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 18, 2022)
Subject 880-01 Méndez-Negrete, Josie -- Childhood and youth
SUBJECT 880-01/(N Me⁺ѓndez-Negrete, Josie -- Childhood and youth
Mendez-Negrete, Josie -- Childhood and youth
Méndez-Negrete, Josie fast
Subject Mexican American women -- Biography
Mexican Americans -- Biography
Migrant agricultural laborers -- United States -- Biography
Incest victims -- United States -- Biography
Child sexual abuse -- Case studies
Mexican American families.
Mexican American women -- Social conditions
Women's rights -- Case studies
Family violence -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
Childhood and youth of a person
Child sexual abuse
Family violence
Incest victims
Mexican American families
Mexican American women
Mexican American women -- Social conditions
Mexican Americans
Migrant agricultural laborers
Women's rights
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Case studies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822388395
0822388391