meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands / Edition 1

by Rosa Linda Fregoso

Overview

meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers are the recent murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juárez; transborder feminist texts that deal with private, domestic forms of violence; how films like John Sayles's Lone Star re-center white masculinity; and the significance of la familia to the identity of Chicanas/os and how it can subordinate gender and sexuality to masculinity and heterosexual roles. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520238909
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	12/04/2003
Series:	American Crossroads , #12
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	1670L (what's this?)

About the Author

Rosa Linda Fregoso is Professor of Latin American/Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the editor of The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films by Lourdes Portillo (2001), and the author of The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture (1993).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Toward a Planetary Civil Society
2. Cross-Border Feminist Solidarities
3. Gender, Multiculturalism, and the Missionary Position on the Borderlands
4. The Chicano Familia Romance
5. Familia Matters
6. "Fantasy Heritage": Tracking Latina Bloodlines
7. Haunted by Miscegenation
8. Ghosts of a Mexican Past

Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index