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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459834303321

Autore

Castillo Ana

Titolo

Massacre of the dreamers : essays on Xicanisma / / Ana Castillo ; foreword by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, New Mexico : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8263-5359-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/86872073

Soggetti

Mexican American women

Feminism - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Afterword: The Real and True Meaning of Our Lady of GuadalupeNotes; Back Cover.

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Clarissa Pinkola Estes; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: A Countryless Woman: The Early Feminista; 2: The 1986 Watsonville Women's Strike: A Case of Mexicana/Chicana Activism; 3: The Ancient Roots of Machismo; 4: Saintly Mother and Soldier's Whore: The Leftist/Catholic Paradigm; 5: In the Beginning There Was Eva; 6: La Macha: Toward an Erotic Whole Self; 7: Brujas and Curanderas: A Lived Spirituality; 8: Un Tapiz: The Poetics of Conscientización; 9: Toward the Mother-Bond Principle; 10: Resurrection of the Dreamers.

Sommario/riassunto

This new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous.