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Beyond Machismo

Intersectional Latino Masculinities

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.

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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.

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¡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

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Our Lady of Controversy

Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition”

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.

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Making a Killing

Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera

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

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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.

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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.

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Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory

A Novel

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Lourdes Portillo

The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films

University of Texas Press

The first study of Portillo and her films, this collection is collaborative and multifaceted in approach, emphasizing aspects of authorial creativity, audience reception, and production processes typically hidden from view.

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