Mexicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands

(Book #12 in the American Crossroads Series)

by Rosa Linda Fregoso

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meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers are the recent murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Ju rez; transborder feminist texts that deal with private, domestic forms of violence; how films...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520238907

ISBN13:9780520238909

Release Date:December 2003

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:219 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Americas Central America Ethnic Studies Gay & Lesbian Gender Studies Hispanic American Studies History Latin America Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics State & Local Women in History Women's Studies

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Mexicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands

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