Mexicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520238909)

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 like John Sayles's Lone Star re-center white masculinity; and the significance of la familia to the identity of Chicanas/os and how it can subordinate gender and sexuality to masculinity and heterosexual roles. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.

Author: Rosa Linda Fregoso
ISBN-10: 0520238907
ISBN-13: 9780520238909
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 12/04/2003
Pages: 219
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.10w x 0.64d
Award: MLA Prize - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 09/01/2004 pg. 93
Choice 07/01/2004 pg. 2128