¡Chicana Power! : : Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement / / Maylei Blackwell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Blackwell, Maylei,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Chicana Matters
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos engaged in widespread protest in their struggle for social justice, civil rights, and self-determination, women in el movimiento became increasingly militant about the gap between the rhetoric of equality and the organizational culture that suppressed women's leadership and subjected women to chauvinism, discrimination, and sexual harassment. Based on rich oral histories and extensive archival research, Maylei Blackwell analyzes the struggles over gender and sexuality within the Chicano Movement and illustrates how those struggles produced new forms of racial consciousness, gender awareness, and political identities. ¡Chicana Power! provides a critical genealogy of pioneering Chicana activist and theorist Anna NietoGomez and the Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, one of the first Latina feminist organizations, who together with other Chicana activists forged an autonomous space for women's political participation and challenged the gendered confines of Chicano nationalism in the movement and in the formation of the field of Chicana studies. She uncovers the multifaceted vision of liberation that continues to reverberate today as contemporary activists, artists, and intellectuals, both grassroots and academic, struggle for, revise, and rework the political legacy of Chicana feminism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Telling Is Political -- Chapter One. Spinning the Record: Historical Writing and Righting -- Chapter Two. Chicana Insurgencies: Stories of Transformation, Youth Rebellion, and Chicana Campus Organizing -- Chapter Three Retrofitted Memory: Chicana Historical Subjectivities between and beyond Nationalist Imaginaries -- Chapter Four Engendering Print Cultures and Chicana Feminist Counterpublics in the Chicano Movement -- Chapter Five Interpretive Dilemmas, Multiple Meanings: Convergence and Disjuncture at the 1971 Conferencia de Mujeres por la Raza -- Chapter Six Chicanas in Movement: Activist and Scholarly Legacies in the Making -- Appendix. Narrator Biographies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index