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 Ju??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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-13
9780520238909
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95730999
Product Key Features
Author
Rosa Linda Fregoso
Publication Name
Mexicana Encounters: the Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Zoology
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
238 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Volume
12
Item Weight
363g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Rosa Linda Fregoso
Series Title
American Crossroads
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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