meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands
A Feminism, Nonfiction, Sociology book. In the first chapter of this work, Fregoso asks us to...
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...
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- Pages: 238 pages
- ISBN: 9780520238909 / 520238907
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In the first chapter of this work, Fregoso asks us to think about the ways in which we come to understand violence. In particular, she asks: Who/what is really killing the young women of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and more importantly, how do we construct a meaningful narrative about the identities of these young women and the meaning of... Read for Modern Spanish American History class.