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Mexicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands

Mexicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands

Fregoso, Rosa Linda

Paperback

Series: American Crossroads, Book 12

General Gender StudiesLatino StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0520238907
ISBN13: 9780520238909
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Dec 4 2003
Pages: 219
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.92
Language: English
Awards: MLA Prize
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 Juárez; 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.

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