1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787658203321

Autore

Torres Edén E

Titolo

Chicana without apology = : Chicana sin vergüenza : the new Chicana cultural studies / / by Edén E. Torres

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-72697-X

1-315-88103-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/86872073

Soggetti

Mexican American women - Study and teaching

Mexican American women - Social conditions

Mexican American women - Ethnic identity

Social action - United States

Feminism - United States

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 (pages 209-215) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction No hay tiempo ni espacio para llorar There Is neither Time nor Space to Cry; Chapter 1 Anguished Past, Troubled Present The Savagery and Promise of Traumatic Memory; Chapter 2 Rich in Culture, Low on Capital Cultural Studies and the Global Economy; Chapter 3 Wisdom and Weakness Freire and Education; Chapter 4 Desire on the Line Sexual Transgression and the Border as Grand Metaphors; Chapter 5 The Virtues of Conflict Challenging Dominant Culture and White Feminist Theory

Chapter 6 Donde hay amor, hay dolor Where There Is Love, There Is PainNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

By approaching Chicana/o issues from the frames of feminism, social activism, and cultural studies, and by considering both lived experience and the latest research, Torres offers a more comprehensive understanding of current Chicana life.  Through compelling prose, Torres masterfully weaves her own story as a first-generation Mexican American with interviews with activists and other Mexican-American women to document the present fight for social justice and the



struggles of living between two worlds.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154326703321

Autore

Rohy Valerie

Titolo

Lost causes : narrative, etiology, and queer theory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-939735-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

809/.93352664

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

English literature - History and criticism

Homosexuality in literature - Social aspects

Queer theory

Narration (Rhetoric)

Homosexuality and literature

Gender identity in literature

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This project stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in etiology - that is, in the cause of homosexuality, whether choice, 'recruitment', or biology. Reading etiology as a narrative form, political strategy, and hermeneutic method in American and British literature and popular culture, it argues that today's gay arguments for biological determinism accept their opponents' paranoia about what the author calls 'homosexual reproduction' - that is, non-sexual forms of queer increase - preventing more complex ways of considering sexuality and causality.