Chicana Feminist Thought brings together the voices of Chicana poets, writers, and activists who reflect upon the Chicana Feminist Movement that began in the late 1960s. With energy and passion, this anthology of writings documents the personal and collective political struggles of Chicana feminists.
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During the turbulent 1960s, Chicanas who funneled blood, sweat, and tears into Mexican American protest movements such as La Raza were often relegated to supporting the men who leapt to the ramparts. Stung by such sexual discrimination and disheartened by--or disinterested in--the largely middle-class Anglo agenda championed by the women's liberation movement, Chicana feminists fought to carve out a niche. Though dry at times, the outspoken essays and writings collected in Chicana Feminist Thought record this struggle as it occurred. Not surprisingly, the writers' voices overlap but don't necessarily blend: one rationalizes machismo and seeks only to redirect it, while another impatiently calls for its end. These writings, from the 1960s to the 1990s, chronicle the development and dissension of Chicana feminists faced with the high-wire balancing act of saving a culture while serving their own needs. The result is an enlightening, thought-provoking piece of feminist history.
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This collection will serve as an invaluable reader for anyone interested in issues of race, ethnicity, women, feminism, communities, radical movements, and sexual and identity politics in recent US history.
–Journal of Women's History
Chicana Feminist Thought is an exceptional text that not only explores the oppression experienced by the Chicanas from members of the dominant society, but also gives insight into tensions within the traditional community when it is confronted by those women who want to effect change and improve the status of women, as well as of their children and their community as a whole.
–NWSA Journal
This collection brings together the feminist documents that proliferated as women of el movimiento struggled to overcome sexist oppression in their search for a 'room of their own'.
–Latina
–Journal of Women's History
Chicana Feminist Thought is an exceptional text that not only explores the oppression experienced by the Chicanas from members of the dominant society, but also gives insight into tensions within the traditional community when it is confronted by those women who want to effect change and improve the status of women, as well as of their children and their community as a whole.
–NWSA Journal
This collection brings together the feminist documents that proliferated as women of el movimiento struggled to overcome sexist oppression in their search for a 'room of their own'.
–Latina
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At the end of May [1971], more than 600 Chicanas met in Houston, Texas, to hold the first national conference of Raza women. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cano men, cana feminists, barrio women, white feminist movement, desert women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Los Angeles, New York, Marta Cotera, Encuentro Femenil, Doña Marina, New Mexico, Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Chicana Service Action Center, San Antonio, Comisión Femenil Mexicana, Puerto Rican, University of California, Francisca Flores, San Jose, Sor Juana, Anna Nieto-Gómez, Evey Chapa, Mexico City, Santa Barbara, Gloria Anzaldúa, Long Beach, National Chicana Conference, San Diego, Cynthia Orozco New!
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At the end of May [1971], more than 600 Chicanas met in Houston, Texas, to hold the first national conference of Raza women. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cano men, cana feminists, barrio women, white feminist movement, desert women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Los Angeles, New York, Marta Cotera, Encuentro Femenil, Doña Marina, New Mexico, Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Chicana Service Action Center, San Antonio, Comisión Femenil Mexicana, Puerto Rican, University of California, Francisca Flores, San Jose, Sor Juana, Anna Nieto-Gómez, Evey Chapa, Mexico City, Santa Barbara, Gloria Anzaldúa, Long Beach, National Chicana Conference, San Diego, Cynthia Orozco New!
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- Chicana Feminist by Martha P. Cotera on 10 pages
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga on 6 pages
- Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan on page 296, page 308, and page 309
- Black Women in White America: A Documentary History by Gerda Lerner in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles by Paula M. L. Moya on 4 pages
- Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature by Sonia Saldívar-Hull in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston by Roberto R. Trevino in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Cultural Studies V13 Issue 2 by Angie Chabram-Dernersesian on page 92, and page 93
- Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy on page 154, and page 155
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