Chicana sexuality and gender : cultural refiguring in literature, oral history, and art /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Blake, Debra J., 1955-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:	Latin America otherwise.
Subjects:	Mexican American women > Attitudes. Mexican American women > Sexual behavior. Mexican American women > Ethnic identity. Mexican American women > Interviews. Mexican American women authors > Interviews. Mexican American women artists > Interviews. Feminism > United States.

Table of Contents:

The power of representation : history, memory, and the cultural refiguring of La Malinche's lineage
Chicana feminism : spirituality, sexuality, and Mexican goddesses re-membered
Las historias : sexuality, gender roles, and La Virgen de Guadalupe reconsidered
Cultural anxieties and truths : gender, nationalism, and La Llorona retellings
Reading dynamics of power : oral histories, feminist research, and the politics of location.