U.S. Chicanas and Latinas Within a Global Context: Women of Color at the Fourth World Women's Conference

by Irene I. Blea

Overview

Using her observations of the United Nation's Fourth World Women's Conference held in China in 1995 as a foundation, the author examines the history and current situation of Latinas and attempts to place them in a global context. After examining the goals, objectives, and atmosphere of the Conference, she analyzes the Chicana feminist movement and its legacy and how Chicanas have struggled to relate to the Conference and its human rights platform. She then profiles U.S. Latinas and presents data on their reality in today's world. The response to U.S. expansionist policies and the Americanization process is examined and related to the Chicana feminist movement and its legacy. An important synthesis for students and researchers in Ethnic and Race Relations and Women's Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275956233
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/30/1997
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

IRENE I. BLEA is Chairperson of the Chicano Studies Department, California State University, Los Angeles. A well-respected feminist scholar of U.S. life and culture, she has published extensively, including Toward a Chicano Social Science (Praeger, 1988), La Chicana and the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender (Praeger, 1991), and Researching Chicano Communities: Social-Historical, Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Space (Praeger, 1995).

Table of Contents

Introduction
The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women
Struggling to Participate
Defining Chicana Feminism
Cultural Sovereignty
The Feminization of Racism: Challenging a Colonial Legacy
Existing in a State of Colonialization
U.S. Expansion and Resistance to the Americanization Process
Chicana Feminist Movement
Decentralizing White Patriarchy
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

A passionate exploration of issues such as the idea of racializing feminism; Chicanas' historical struggle to relate to the UN conference and the platform; how Chicanas have resisted and survived the Americanization process of their culture; the development of the Chicana ethnic, gender, and racial political consciousness; and how concepts of Chicana power and leadership have transformed institutions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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