Chicana Sexuality And Gender
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Chicana Sexuality And Gender
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Author : Debra J. Blake
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-31
Chicana Sexuality And Gender written by Debra J. Blake and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-31 with Social Science categories.
Since the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked iconic Mexican cultural symbols such as mother earth goddesses and La Llorona (the Wailing Woman of Mexican folklore), re-imagining them as powerful female figures. After reading the works of Chicana writers who created bold, powerful, and openly sexual female characters, Debra J. Blake wondered how everyday Mexican American women would characterize their own lives in relation to the writers’ radical reconfigurations of female sexuality and gender roles. To find out, Blake gathered oral histories from working-class and semiprofessional U.S. Mexicanas. In Chicana Sexuality and Gender, she compares the self-representations of these women with fictional and artistic representations by academic-affiliated, professional intellectual Chicana writers and visual artists, including Alma M. López and Yolanda López. Blake looks at how the Chicana professional intellectuals and the U.S. Mexicana women refigure confining and demeaning constructions of female gender roles and racial, ethnic, and sexual identities. She organizes her analysis around re-imaginings of La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Llorona, indigenous Mexica goddesses, and La Malinche, the indigenous interpreter for Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest. In doing so, Blake reveals how the professional intellectuals and the working-class and semiprofessional women rework or invoke the female icons to confront the repression of female sexuality, limiting gender roles, inequality in male and female relationships, and violence against women. While the representational strategies of the two groups of women are significantly different and the U.S. Mexicanas would not necessarily call themselves feminists, Blake nonetheless illuminates a continuum of Chicana feminist thinking, showing how both groups of women expand lifestyle choices and promote the health and well-being of women of Mexican origin or descent.
Brown Trans Figurations
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Author : Francisco J. Galarte
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2021-01-28
Brown Trans Figurations written by Francisco J. Galarte and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-28 with Social Science categories.
Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjects are treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies, lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used as metaphors. Restoring personhood and agency to these subjects, Francisco J. Galarte advances “brown trans figuration” as a theoretical framework to describe how transness and brownness coexist within the larger queer, trans, and Latinx historical experiences. Brown Trans Figurations presents a collection of representations that reveal the repression of brown trans narratives and make that repression visible and palpable. Galarte examines the violent deaths of two transgender Latinas and the corresponding narratives that emerged about their lives, analyzes the invisibility of brown transmasculinity in Chicana feminist works, and explores how issues such as transgender politics can be imagined as part of Chicanx and Latinx political movements. This book considers the contexts in which brown trans narratives appear, how they circulate, and how they are reproduced in politics, sexual cultures, and racialized economies.
Language Nature Gender And Sexuality
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Author : Elizabeth Rodriguez Kessler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Language Nature Gender And Sexuality written by Elizabeth Rodriguez Kessler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with American fiction categories.
Brown On Brown
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Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2009-07-21
Brown On Brown written by Frederick Luis Aldama and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Common conceptions permeating U.S. ethnic queer theory tend to confuse aesthetics with real-world acts and politics. Often Chicano/a representations of gay and lesbian experiences in literature and film are analyzed simply as propaganda. The cognitive, emotional, and narrational ingredients (that is, the subject matter and the formal traits) of those representations are frequently reduced to a priori agendas that emphasize a politics of difference. In this book, Frederick Luis Aldama follows an entirely different approach. He investigates the ways in which race and gay/lesbian sexuality intersect and operate in Chicano/a literature and film while taking into full account their imaginative nature and therefore the specific kind of work invested in them. Also, Aldama frames his analyses within today's larger (globalized) context of postcolonial literary and filmic canons that seek to normalize heterosexual identity and experience. Throughout the book, Aldama applies his innovative approach to throw new light on the work of authors Arturo Islas, Richard Rodriguez, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, and Sheila Ortiz Taylor, as well as that of film director Edward James Olmos. In doing so, Aldama aims to integrate and deepen Chicano literary and filmic studies within a comparative perspective. Aldama's unusual juxtapositions of narrative materials and cultural personae, and his premise that literature and film produce fictional examples of a social and historical reality concerned with ethnic and sexual issues largely unresolved, make this book relevant to a wide range of readers.
Renegotiating Responsibilities Transforming Culture
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Author : Mónica L. Russel y Rodríguez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Renegotiating Responsibilities Transforming Culture written by Mónica L. Russel y Rodríguez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Mexican American women categories.
Reading Chican Like A Queer
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Author : Sandra K. Soto
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-03-15
Reading Chican Like A Queer written by Sandra K. Soto and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
A race-based oppositional paradigm has informed Chicano studies since its emergence. In this work, Sandra K. Soto replaces that paradigm with a less didactic, more flexible framework geared for a queer analysis of the discursive relationship between racialization and sexuality. Through rereadings of a diverse range of widely discussed writers--from Américo Paredes to Cherríe Moraga--Soto demonstrates that representations of racialization actually depend on the sexual and that a racialized sexuality is a heretofore unrecognized organizing principle of Chican@ literature, even in the most unlikely texts. Soto gives us a broader and deeper engagement with Chican@ representations of racialization, desire, and both inter- and intracultural social relations. While several scholars have begun to take sexuality seriously by invoking the rich terrain of contemporary Chicana feminist literature for its portrayal of culturally specific and historically laden gender and sexual frameworks, as well as for its imaginative transgressions against them, this is the first study to theorize racialized sexuality as pervasive to and enabling of the canon of Chican@ literature. Exemplifying the broad usefulness of queer theory by extending its critical tools and anti-heteronormative insights to racialization, Soto stages a crucial intervention amid a certain loss of optimism that circulates both as a fear that queer theory was a fad whose time has passed, and that queer theory is incapable of offering an incisive, politically grounded analysis in and of the current historical moment.
Post Borderlandia
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Author : T. Jackie Cuevas
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-28
Post Borderlandia written by T. Jackie Cuevas and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Honorable Mention, 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association 2019 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Bringing Chicana/o studies into conversation with queer theory and transgender studies, Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. It considers how Chicana butch lesbians and Chicanx trans people are not only challenging heteropatriarchal norms, but also departing from mainstream conceptions of queerness and gender identification. Expanding on Gloria Anzaldúa’s classic formulation of the Chicana as transformer of the “borderlands,” Jackie Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are imagining a “post-borderlands” subjectivity, where shifting national, racial, class, sexual, and gender identifications produce complex power dynamics. In addition, Cuevas offers fresh archival analysis of the Chicana feminist canon to reveal how queer gender variance has always been crucial to this literary tradition.
Chicana Feminisms
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Author : Patricia Zavella
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-09
Chicana Feminisms written by Patricia Zavella and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-09 with Social Science categories.
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
Sexing Empire
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Author : Bernadine Marie Hernández
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Sexing Empire written by Bernadine Marie Hernández and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with American literature categories.
This dissertation sets out to trace the material and social relations and legacies of racialized gender and sexuality from 1870 to the contemporary moment in the hemispheric Southwest through Mexican American (Californiana, Tejana, Hispana) and Chicana narrative by examining multiple empires and governances, Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. This dissertation aims to trace the sexual economies of the Southwest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to interrogate how gender and sexuality is materially used for production and reproduction and how historical relations inform notions of racialized gender and sexuality for Chicana bodies in the contemporary moment. This study traverses a long historical period not to trace a colonial historical moment, but rather, to trace a colonial and then imperial legacy of productive to unproductive racialized sexualities between dominant and subordinate populations in the Southwest. It intervenes in Chicana/o Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and American literary history as it traces the shifts in economic systems and sexual economies and how those shifts after 1848 produce gender and sexual norms. In addition to this examination, this dissertation utilizes decolonial and Chicana feminist theory to interrogate how Mexicana gender and sexuality is informed by black and native bodies and how sexual economies produce material relations and racialized gender and sexuality. The literary narratives of the Mexican American and Chicana works I examine trace matters of sexualization, sex, and gender in the late nineteenth, early twentieth, and the contemporary moment, particularly the critical role sexual and gender arrangements have in creating categories of differentiation and distinguishing the subjugated from the subjugator. The social classification that racialized gender and sexuality regulates is not a fixed and/or ignored act, but rather a perversely critical one. Imperial governance in the nineteenth-century depended on the regulation and surveillance of sexual economies and their changing histories of productivity. This is the first significant point this dissertation makes. Wrestling with is the ever-evolving comparative framework between Mexican American/Chicana, Native, and Black Studies and the co-constitutive relations between these different "groups" throughout history, I argue that the tensions and literary strategies used in the Mexican American narrative and legal cases I examine uncover the contradictory and co-constitutive position of Mexican American female. Lastly, the dissertation has a long historical lineage, which frames the last chapter and the discourse of the excessive Chicana in the contemporary moment. Tracing a history of gender and sexual norms in the Southwest that informs the processes of differentiation and the regulation and management of certain bodies, I utilize multiple historical flashpoints to untangle how racialized gender and sexuality informs proper subjects of the borderlands and forgets the historical elements persistent in forgetting how violent structures were formed up and against deviant and excessive racialized bodies.
Voicing Chicana Feminisms
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Author : Aida Hurtado
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2003
Voicing Chicana Feminisms written by Aida Hurtado and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Psychology categories.
Focusing on the voices of young women, this book explores the relationship between Chicana feminism and the actual experiences of Chicanas today.