Femmenism and the Mexican woman intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska : boob lit / / Emily Hind.

• Superior document: Breaking feminist waves
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Hind, Emily.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Breaking feminist waves.
• Physical Description: xii, 268 p.
• Other title: Boob lit; Feminism and the Mexican woman intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780230104464 (hc); 0230104460 (hc); 9780230113497 (ebook)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Emily Hind.

"There is a large portion of young women in both US and Mexican university classrooms today who do not self-identify as feminists. Hind makes steps to correct this and draws on poetry, short stories, plays, novels, photographs, personal correspondence, advertising, and interviews to make visible the anti-feminine tendencies in femenism and to imagine a femmenism that will appeal to the next generation of women"--Provided by publisher. "From poetry, short stories, plays, novels, photographs, personal correspondence, advertising, and interviews, Boob Lit. draws on both well-known and nearly forgotten materials to make visible the anti-feminine tendencies in femenism and to imagine a femmenism that might appeal to the startling numbers of young women in US and Mexican university classrooms today who do not self-identify as feminists. Catwoman, the cabrona, the diva-lectual, Barbie, the compulsory asexual, the clothes mind, the Boob, and the "beard" are just some of the swishy responses that Boob Lit. proposes as a response to the metonymic threat* of having boobs. *(Having boobs might make you one.) "--Provided by publisher.