¡Chicana power! : contested histories of feminism in the Chicano movement
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¡Chicana power! : contested histories of feminism in the Chicano movement
（Chicana matters series）
University of Texas Press, 2011
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-286) and index
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Description
The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, !Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos engaged in widespread protest in their struggle for social justice, civil rights, and self-determination, women in el movimiento became increasingly militant about the gap between the rhetoric of equality and the organizational culture that suppressed women's leadership and subjected women to chauvinism, discrimination, and sexual harassment. Based on rich oral histories and extensive archival research, Maylei Blackwell analyzes the struggles over gender and sexuality within the Chicano Movement and illustrates how those struggles produced new forms of racial consciousness, gender awareness, and political identities.
!Chicana Power! provides a critical genealogy of pioneering Chicana activist and theorist Anna NietoGomez and the Hijas de Cuauhtemoc, one of the first Latina feminist organizations, who together with other Chicana activists forged an autonomous space for women's political participation and challenged the gendered confines of Chicano nationalism in the movement and in the formation of the field of Chicana studies. She uncovers the multifaceted vision of liberation that continues to reverberate today as contemporary activists, artists, and intellectuals, both grassroots and academic, struggle for, revise, and rework the political legacy of Chicana feminism.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Telling Is Political
One. Spinning the Record: Historical Writing and Righting
Two. Chicana Insurgencies: Stories of Transformation, Youth Rebellion, and Campus Organizing
Three. Retrofitted Memory: Chicana Historical Subjectivities between and beyond Nationalist Imaginaries
Four. Engendering Print Cultures and Chicana Feminist Counterpublics in the Chicano Movement
Five. Interpretive Dilemmas, Multiple Meanings: Convergence and Disjuncture at the 1971 Conferencia de Mujeres por la Raza
Six. Chicanas in Movement: Activist and Scholar Legacies in the Making
Appendix. Narrator Biographies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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