Building with our hands : new directions in Chicana studies /
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993. |
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| Description: | xiv, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1382618 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Beatriz M. Pesquera and Adela de la Torre
- Pt. 1. Acts Of Domination / Acts Of Resistance. 2. Sexual Violence in the Politics and Policies of Conquest: Amerindian Women and the Spanish Conquest of Alta California / Antonia I. Casteneda. 3. And, Yes...The Earth Did Part: On the Splitting of Chicana/o Subjectivity / Angie Chabram Dernersesian. 4. Speaking from the Margin: Uninvited Discourse on Sexuality and Power / Emma Perez
- Pt. 2. Cultural Representations / Cultural Presentations. 5. La Tules of Image and Reality: Euro-American Attitudes and Legend Formation on a Spanish-Mexican Frontier / Deena J. Gonzalez. 6. "It Is My Last Wish That...": A Look at Colonial Nuevo Mexicanas through Their Testaments / Angelina F. Veyna. 7. "Star Struck": Acculturation, Adolescence, and the Mexican American Woman, 1920-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz. 8. The Mother Motif in La Bamba and Boulevard Nights / Rosa Linda Fregoso
- Pt. 3. Contested Domains: Economy and Family. 9. Gender, Class, and Households: Migration Patterns in Aguascalientes, Mexico / Maria de los Angeles Crummett. 10. Hard Choices and Changing Roles among Mexican Migrant Campesinas / Adela de la Torre. 11. "In the Beginning He Wouldn't Lift Even a Spoon": The Division of Household Labor / Beatriz M. Pesquera
- Pt. 4. Social Reproduction: Institutional and "Uninstitutional" Lives. 12. Slipping through the Cracks: Dilemmas in Chicana Education / Denise A. Segura. 13. Gender and the Life Course: A Case Study of Chicana Elderly / Elisa Facio
- 14. Conclusion / Adela de la Torre and Beatriz M. Pesquera.