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Loading... meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (2003)by Rosa Linda Fregoso
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Belongs to SeriesAmerican Crossroads (12)
meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers are the recent murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad JuŠ?rez; transborder feminist texts that deal with private, domestic forms of violence; how films like John Sayles's Lone Star re-center white masculinity; and the significance of la familia to the identity of Chicanas/os and how it can subordinate gender and sexuality to masculinity and heterosexual roles. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.48Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Women Women by social groupLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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