Chicana Liberation – Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945–1…

Chicana LiberationWomen and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981\nAuthor(s): Marisela R. Chvez\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252045707, 978-0252045707\nSynopsis\nMexican American women reached across generations to develop a bridging activism that drew on different methods and ideologies to pursue their goals. Marisela R. Chvez uses a wealth of untapped oral histories to reveal the diverse ways activist Mexican American women in Los Angeles claimed their own voices and space while seeking to leverage power. Chvez tells the stories of the people who honed beliefs and practices before the advent of the Chicano movement and the participants in the movement after its launch in the late 1960s. As she shows, Chicanas across generations challenged societal traditions that at first assumed their place on the sidelines and then assigned them second-class status within political stru.