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

• Autore: Fregoso Rosa Linda
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48/868720721
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Mexican-American Border Region Civilization; Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions; Mexican-American Border Region Ethnic relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: MeXicana encounters
• ISBN: 1-282-76296-6; 0-520-93728-7; 9786612762963; 1-59734-746-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910449669903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American crossroads ; ; 12.