A01=Alfredo Mirande
A01=Evangelina Enriquez
Author_Alfredo Mirande
Author_Evangelina Enriquez
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Category=JBSL
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226531601
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 1981
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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La Chicana is the story of a marginal group in society, neither fully Mexican or fully American, who suffer under triple oppression: as women, as members of a colonized culture, and as victims of a cultural heritage dominated by the cult of machismo. Tracing the role of Chicanas from pre-Columbian society to the present, the authors reveal the antecedents and roots of contemporary cultural expectations in Aztec, colonial, and revolutionary Mexican historical periods. A discussion of the contribution of modern Chicanas to their community and to feminism and a look at literary stereotypes and the emergence of Chicana literature to counter them round out this perceptive and sympathetic analysis.
