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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785693503321

Autore

Hind Emily

Titolo

Femmenism and the Mexican Woman Intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska [[electronic resource] ] : Boob Lit / / by Emily Hind

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

1-282-99293-7

9786612992933

0-230-11349-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 268 p.)

Collana

Breaking Feminist Waves

Disciplina

860.9/92870972

Soggetti

Sociology

Literature

Ethnology—Latin America

Literature   

Literature—Philosophy

Feminist theory

Gender Studies

Literature, general

Latin American Culture

Postcolonial/World Literature

Literary Theory

Feminism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Your Maternity Or Your Mind : False Choices for Mexican Woman Intellectuals -- Asexuality and the Woman Writer : Queering a Compliant Castellanos -- Amor, Garro, and Rivas Mercado as Diva-lectuals -- Poniatowska as Bearded Lady -- On Barbie, the Boob, and Loaeza.

Sommario/riassunto

Hind draws on poetry, short stories, plays, novels, photographs, personal correspondence, advertising, and interviews to make visible the anti-feminine tendencies in femmenism and to imagine a



femmenism that will appeal to the next generation of women.