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La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman

La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman

Paperback

Series: Mexican-American Woman

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ISBN10: 0226531600
ISBN13: 9780226531601
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Mar 15 1981
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
La Chicana is the story of a marginal group in society, neither fully Mexican or fully American, who suffer under triple oppression: as women, as members of a colonized culture, and as victims of a cultural heritage dominated by the cult of machismo. Tracing the role of Chicanas from pre-Columbian society to the present, the authors reveal the antecedents and roots of contemporary cultural expectations in Aztec, colonial, and revolutionary Mexican historical periods. A discussion of the contribution of modern Chicanas to their community and to feminism and a look at literary stereotypes and the emergence of Chicana literature to counter them round out this perceptive and sympathetic analysis.

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