With Her Machete in Her Hand : : Reading Chicana Lesbians / / Catrióna Rueda Esquibel.
With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Chicana/o experience ha...
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