La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman
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Book details
- Author
- Mirand
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Women
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780226531601
- ISBN-10
- 0226531600
- Vendor: Mia Karts
La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman
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ISBN: 0226531600
Author: Mirand
Condition: New
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.
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