Intersectional Chicana Feminisms

Intersectional Chicana Feminisms
Author: Aída Hurtado
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 081654123X

Chicana feminisms are living theory deriving value and purpose by affecting social change. Advocating for and demonstrating the importance of an intersectional, multidisciplinary, activist understanding of Chicanas, Intersectional Chicana Feminisms provides a much-needed overview of the key theories, thinkers, and activists that have contributed to Chicana feminist thought. Aída Hurtado, a leading Chicana feminist and scholar, traces the origins of Chicanas’ efforts to bring attention to the effects of gender in Chicana and Chicano studies. Highlighting the innovative and pathbreaking methodologies developed within the field of Chicana feminisms—such as testimonio, conocimiento, and autohistoria—this book offers an accessible introduction to Chicana theory, methodology, art, and activism. Hurtado also looks at the newest developments in the field and the future of Chicana feminisms. The book includes short biographies of key Chicana feminists, additional suggested readings, and exercises with each chapter to extend opportunities for engagement in classroom and workshop settings.

Chicana/Latina Testimonios as Pedagogical, Methodological, and Activist Approaches to Social Justice

Chicana/Latina Testimonios as Pedagogical, Methodological, and Activist Approaches to Social Justice
Author: Dolores Delgado Bernal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Discrimination in education
ISBN: 9781138962972

Chicana/Latina scholars are increasingly taking up testimonio as a pedagogical, methodological, and activist approach to social justice that transgresses traditional paradigms in academia. Testimonio challenges objectivity by situating the individual in communion with a collective experience marked by marginalization, oppression, or resistance, resulting in new understandings about how marginalized communities build solidarity, and respond to and resist dominant culture, laws, and policies that perpetuate inequity. This book was originally published as a special issue of Equity & Excellence in Education.

Voicing Chicana Feminisms

Voicing Chicana Feminisms
Author: Aida Hurtado
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2003
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0814735746

Focusing on the voices of young women, this book explores the relationship between Chicana feminism and the actual experiences of Chicanas today.

Chicana Feminisms

Chicana Feminisms
Author: Gabriela F. Arredondo
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2003-07-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780822331414

DIVAn anthology of original essays from Chicana feminists which explores the complexities of life experiences of the Chicanas, such as class, generation, sexual orientation, age, language use, etc./div

Chicana Feminist Thought

Chicana Feminist Thought
Author: Alma M. Garcia
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2014-04-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134719817

Chicana Feminist Thought brings together the voices of Chicana poets, writers, and activists who reflect upon the Chicana Feminist Movement that began in the late 1960s. With energy and passion, this anthology of writings documents the personal and collective political struggles of Chicana feminists.

Chicana Movidas

Chicana Movidas
Author: Dionne Espinoza
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2018-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1477316833

Winner, Best Multiauthor Nonfiction Book, International Latino Book Awards, 2019 With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays in Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era demonstrate how Chicanas enacted a new kind of politica at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and developed innovative concepts, tactics, and methodologies that in turn generated new theories, art forms, organizational spaces, and strategies of alliance. These are the technologies of resistance documented in Chicana Movidas, a volume that brings together critical biographies of Chicana activists and their bodies of work; essays that focus on understudied organizations, mobilizations, regions, and subjects; examinations of emergent Chicana archives and the politics of collection; and scholarly approaches that challenge the temporal, political, heteronormative, and spatial limits of established Chicano movement narratives. Charting the rise of a field of knowledge that crosses the boundaries of Chicano studies, feminist theory, and queer theory, Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era offers a transgenerational perspective on the intellectual and political legacies of early Chicana feminism.

Radical Chicana Poetics

Radical Chicana Poetics
Author: Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-08-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781137343574

Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing.

U.S. Chicanas and Latinas Within a Global Context

U.S. Chicanas and Latinas Within a Global Context
Author: Irene I. Blea
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1997-11-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313019010

Using her observations of the United Nation's Fourth World Women's Conference held in China in 1995 as a foundation, the author examines the history and current situation of Latinas and attempts to place them in a global context. After examining the goals, objectives, and atmosphere of the Conference, she analyzes the Chicana feminist movement and its legacy and how Chicanas have struggled to relate to the Conference and its human rights platform. She then profiles U.S. Latinas and presents data on their reality in today's world. The response to U.S. expansionist policies and the Americanization process is examined and related to the Chicana feminist movement and its legacy. An important synthesis for students and researchers in Ethnic and Race Relations and Women's Studies.

Beyond Machismo

Beyond Machismo
Author: Aída Hurtado
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1477308776

Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo—a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other possible influences on men’s attitudes and behavior—is still used to define Latino men and boys in the larger social narrative. Yet a closer look reveals young, educated Latino men who are going beyond machismo to a deeper understanding of women’s experiences and a commitment to ending gender oppression. This new Latino manhood is the subject of Beyond Machismo. Applying and expanding the concept of intersectionality developed by Chicana feminists, Aída Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha explain how the influences of race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender shape Latinos’ views of manhood, masculinity, and gender issues in Latino communities and their acceptance or rejection of feminism. In particular, the authors show how encountering Chicana feminist writings in college, as well as witnessing the horrors of sexist oppression in the United States and Latin America, propels young Latino men to a feminist consciousness. By focusing on young, high-achieving Latinos, Beyond Machismo elucidates this social group’s internal diversity, thereby providing a more nuanced understanding of the processes by which Latino men can overcome structural obstacles, form coalitions across lines of difference, and contribute to movements for social justice.