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Beyond Machismo
Intersectional Latino Masculinities
By Aída Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha
University of Texas Press
Challenging prevailing notions of Latino machismo, sexism, and homogeneity, this book demonstrates how education, life experiences, and exposure to feminist ideas are changing the norms, values, and perceptions of young Latino men and their communities.
Wild Tongues
Transnational Mexican Popular Culture
University of Texas Press
An innovative application of four social types—the downtrodden Peladita/Peladito and the zoot-suited Pachuca/Pachuco—that illuminates working-class subjects in a broad spectrum of Mexican and Mexican American cultural production.
¡Chicana Power!
Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
University of Texas Press
Drawing on a wealth of oral histories from pioneering Chicana activists, as well as the vibrant print culture through which they articulated their agenda and built community, this book presents the first full-scale investigation of the social and politica
Our Lady of Controversy
Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition”
Edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López
University of Texas Press
An anthology of vibrant responses to Alma López’s controversial print Our Lady, exploring critical issues of censorship, religion, and the female body.
Making a Killing
Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera
Edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Georgina Guzmán
University of Texas Press
Bringing together diverse perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, critical race theory, semiotics, and textual analysis, this is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the murders of more than five hundred women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration
Engendering Transnational Ties
University of Texas Press
A fascinating study of the transnational experiences of Mexicans who immigrated from San Ignacio Cerro Gordo, Jalisco, to Detroit, Michigan.
Performing Mexicanidad
Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage
University of Texas Press
An examination of the intersection of public discourses on sexualities with recent political, economic, and social shifts in the national context of Mexico and the Mexican diaspora in the United States.
Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory
A Novel
By Emma Pérez
University of Texas Press
The story of a Tejana lesbian cowgirl after the fall of the Alamo as she journeys through her own Brokeback Mountain.
Private Women, Public Lives
Gender and the Missions of the Californias
University of Texas Press
A study of three women’s lives in colonial California and what they reveal about gendered colonial relations and power hierarchies.
Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture
University of Texas Press
Offering a new interpretation of cultural nationalism in Chicana/o identity, this provocative work examines the relationship between globalization and the rise of feminism and gay/lesbian activism.
Golondrina, why did you leave me?
A Novel
University of Texas Press
A powerful story of losses, triumphs, and the strong ties that bind a working-class Tejano family in the Texas panhandle.
Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas
Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature
University of Texas Press
A comparative reading of literature by Mexicanas and Chicanas, including Sandra Cisneros, Laura Esquivel, Carmen Boullosa, and Helena María Viramontes, that raises compelling questions about the very nature of cultural constructs in literature.
Blood Lines
Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature
University of Texas Press
Placing texts of Chicana/o indigenism and nationalism alongside European and Euro-American ethnographic, travel, and journalistic writing, this is the first comprehensive, comparative literary study of its kind.
Teatro Chicana
A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays
University of Texas Press
A firsthand history of a Chicana women's political theatre group that operated in the 1970s and 1980s in San Diego.
Fertile Matters
The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction
University of Texas Press
An exploration into how Mexican-origin women’s reproduction has been stereotyped and demonized in the United States.
This Land Was Mexican Once
Histories of Resistance from Northern California
University of Texas Press
A model for telling the multicultural history of the American West, starting with Napa County, California.
The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras
Essays on Chicana/Latina Literature and Criticism
University of Texas Press
A series of wide-ranging essays on the growth--and marginalization--of Chicana/Latina literature, criticism, and art.
With Her Machete in Her Hand
Reading Chicana Lesbians
University of Texas Press
The first history of Chicana lesbian writing from the 1970s until today.
Shakin' Up Race and Gender
Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995)
University of Texas Press
The first comparative study of the literature and cultures of three distinct yet interrelated ethnic groups: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and Chicanos.
The Wounded Heart
Writing on Cherríe Moraga
University of Texas Press
Analyzing the "in-between" spaces in Moraga’s writing where race, gender, class, and sexuality intermingle, this first book-length study of Moraga’s work focuses on her writing of the body and related material practices of sex, desire, and pleasure.
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