Chicana Sexuality and Gender - 9780822343103

Chicana Sexuality and GenderCultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art\nAuthor(s): Debra J. Blake\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822343103, 978-0822343103\nSynopsis\nSince the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria Anzalda, Cherre Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked iconic Mexican cultural symbols such as mother earth goddesses and La Llorona (the Wailing Woman of Mexican folklore), re-imagining them as powerful female figures. After reading the works of Chicana writers who created bold, powerful, and openly sexual female characters, Debra J. Blake wondered how everyday Mexican American women would characterize their own lives in relation to the writers radical reconfigurations of female sexuality and gender roles. To find out, Blake gathered oral histories from working-class and semiprofessional [url] Mexicanas. In Chicana Sexuality and Gender, sh.