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  title info:
    title: Ecological borderlands
    sub title: body, nature, and spirit in Chicana feminism
  name:
    name part: Holmes, Christina
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 192 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: This project focuses on environmental practices among Mexican-American women and offers a rethinking of ecofeminism from the standpoint of Chicana feminists. Christina Holmes examines ecological themes across film, literature, murals and other visual art, Chicano nationalist activism and contemporary direct action organization and presents how Chicana artists, activists and scholars craft alternative models for ecofeminist praxis. Drawing on debates central to earlier ecofeminist work, Holmes analyzes issues around embodiment, women's connections to nature and the place of spirituality in ecofeminist philosophy and practice. Chicana environmentalism provides pathways to insights in decolonization by linking social and ecological justice outside of a narrow framework, and Holmes seeks to explore the challenges to debates in the canon of ecofeminist literature to develop a more inclusive model of environmental feminism to alleviate some of the biases in Western feminism. Close readings of theoretical work, careful elaborations of ecological narratives in Chicana cultural productions, histories of land, water and work rights struggles in the Southwest and a detailed description of an activist exemplar of Chicana eco-feminist practices all work in tandem to underscore the importance of living with feminist commitment in body, nature and spirit. Chicana Environmentalisms demonstrates how Chicana feminists have actively and materially stretched themselves into coalitions with human, nature and spirit others, and these acts underscore the role of agency in Chicana ecofeminist work.
  note: Christina Holmes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ecofeminism
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
  subject:
    topic: Mexican American women
  subject:
    topic: Women
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
  subject:
    topic: Women and the environment
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
  subject:
    topic: Environmental justice
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
  subject:
    topic: Feminism
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Feminism & Feminist Theory
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Ethnic Studies
    topic: Hispanic American Studies
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Gender Studies
  classification: HQ1194 .H65 2016
  classification: 305.48/86872073
  related item:
    title info:
      title: National Women's Studies Association journal reader
  identifier: 9780252040542
  identifier: 0252040546
  identifier: 9780252082016
  identifier: 025208201X
  identifier: 2016017322
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160623
    record change date: 20170926152156.0
    record identifier: in00003755799