MeXicana encounters [[electronic resource] ] : the making of social identities on the borderlands / / Rosa Linda Fregoso

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783056003321
• Autore: Fregoso Rosa Linda
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
• ISBN: 1-282-76296-6; 0-520-93728-7; 9786612762963; 1-59734-746-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Collana: American crossroads ; ; 12
• Disciplina: 305.48/868720721
• Soggetti: Mexican American women - Mexican-American Border Region - Social conditions; Women - Mexican-American Border Region - Social conditions; Women in popular culture - Mexican-American Border Region; Women in motion pictures; Mexican American women - Ethnic identity; Group identity - Mexican-American Border Region; Popular culture - Mexican-American Border Region; Mexican-American Border Region Civilization; Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions; Mexican-American Border Region Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.