Chicana Movidas : : New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era /

Chicana Movidas : : New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era / / ed. by Dionne Espinoza, Maylei Blackwell, María Eugenia Cotera.

With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essay...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Aguirre, Michael D.,
Bermudez, Rosie C.,
Blackwell, Maylei,
Chávez, Marisela R.,
Cotera, Martha P.,
Cotera, María,
Espinoza, Dionne,
Gallardo, Susana L.,
Gutiérrez, Elena,
Hernández-Ávila, Inés,
Marchevsky, Alejandra,
Martínez, Virginia,
NietoGomez, Anna,
Perez, Annemarie,
Riva, Osa Hidalgo de la Riva,
Rodriguez, Samantha,
Romero, Deanna,
Sendejo, Brenda,
Talamante, Olga,
Torre, Monica De La,
Villarreal, Stalina Emmanuelle,
Wiggins, Leticia,
HerausgeberIn:
Blackwell, Maylei,
Cotera, María Eugenia,
Espinoza, Dionne,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2018
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (467 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Movements, Movimientos, and Movidas
  • Part I. Hallway Movidas
  • 1. Francisca Flores, the League of Mexican American Women, and the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional, 1958–1975
  • 2. Mujeres Bravas: How Chicanas Shaped the Feminist Agenda at the National IWY Conference in Houston, 1977
  • 3. “Women Need to Find Their Voice”: Latinas Speak Out in the Midwest, 1972
  • 4. “It’s Not a Natural Order”: Religion and the Emergence of Chicana Feminism in the Cursillo Movement in San Jose
  • 5. Many Roads, One Path: A Testimonio of Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  • Part II. Home-Making Movidas
  • 6. La Causa de los Pobres: Alicia Escalante’s Lived Experiences of Poverty and the Struggle for Economic Justice
  • 7. Women Who Make Their Own Worlds: The Life and Work of Ester Hernández
  • 8. Feminista Frequencies: Chicana Radio Activism in the Pacific Northwest
  • 9. Excavating the Chicano Movement: Chicana Feminism, Mobilization, and Leadership at El Centro de la Raza, 1972–1979
  • 10. The Space in Between: Exploring the Development of Chicana Feminist Thought in Central Texas
  • 11. Visions of Utopia while Living in Occupied Aztlán
  • Part III. Movidas of Crossing
  • 12. Forging a Brown-Black Movement: Chicana and African American Women Organizing for Welfare Rights in Los Angeles
  • 13. “Tu Reata Es Mi Espada”: Elizabeth Sutherland’s Chicana Formation
  • 14. “La Raza en Canada”: San Diego Chicana Activists, the Indochinese Women’s Conference of 1971, and Third World Womanism
  • 15. María Jiménez: Reflexiones on Traversing Multiple Fronteras in the South
  • 16. De Campesina a Internacionalista: A Journey of Encuentros y Desencuentros
  • Part IV. Memory Movidas
  • 17. Unpacking Our Mothers’ Libraries: Practices of Chicana Memory before and after the Digital Turn
  • 18. Refocusing Chicana International Feminism: Photographs, Postmemory, and Political Trauma
  • 19. La Mariposa de Oro: The Journey of an Advocate
  • 20. My Deliberate Pursuit of Freedom
  • 21. Manifesto de Memoria: (Re)Living the Movement without Blinking
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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