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.

"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.

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Your Maternity Or Your Mind : False Choices for Mexican Woman Intellectuals -- Asexuality and the Woman Writer : Queering a Compliant Castellanos -- Amor, Garro, and Rivas Mercado as Diva-lectuals -- Poniatowska as Bearded Lady -- On Barbie, the Boob, and Loaeza.