La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226531601)

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.


Author: Alfredo Mirandé, Evangelina Enríquez
ISBN-10: 0226531600
ISBN-13: 9780226531601
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/1981
Pages: 294
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.05w x 0.68d