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¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement (Chicana Matters) Paperback – August 1, 2011
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The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos engaged in widespread protest in their struggle for social justice, civil rights, and self-determination, women in el movimiento became increasingly militant about the gap between the rhetoric of equality and the organizational culture that suppressed women's leadership and subjected women to chauvinism, discrimination, and sexual harassment. Based on rich oral histories and extensive archival research, Maylei Blackwell analyzes the struggles over gender and sexuality within the Chicano Movement and illustrates how those struggles produced new forms of racial consciousness, gender awareness, and political identities.
¡Chicana Power! provides a critical genealogy of pioneering Chicana activist and theorist Anna NietoGomez and the Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, one of the first Latina feminist organizations, who together with other Chicana activists forged an autonomous space for women's political participation and challenged the gendered confines of Chicano nationalism in the movement and in the formation of the field of Chicana studies. She uncovers the multifaceted vision of liberation that continues to reverberate today as contemporary activists, artists, and intellectuals, both grassroots and academic, struggle for, revise, and rework the political legacy of Chicana feminism.
- Reading age1 year and up
- Print length312 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
- PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
- Publication dateAugust 1, 2011
- ISBN-100292726902
- ISBN-13978-0292726901
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Maylei Blackwell is Assistant Professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Women's Studies at UCLA. An interdisciplinary scholar activist and oral historian, she works with indigenous women's organizers in Mexico, Latin American feminist movements, and sexual rights activists, all of whom are involved in cross-border organizing and community formation.
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- Publisher : University of Texas Press; Chicana Matters edition (August 1, 2011)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 312 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0292726902
- ISBN-13 : 978-0292726901
- Reading age : 1 year and up
- Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #679,028 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #308 in Hispanic American Demographic Studies
- #1,338 in Feminist Theory (Books)
- #2,075 in Women in History
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- Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2012i read this book for a women and gender studies graduate course, and it is one of my favorite books. i appreciate the author's perspectives, knowledge, and perspectives on Chicana leadership experiences.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2016My daughter loves the book.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2015Loved it!
- Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2014I like the information but it is written like a college book, a bit boring.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2014Incomplete, short-sighted, and too myopic. misplaced male polarization ignores NY feminist power grab, the Maldonado/Ward CA/DC revolution that made first federal chicana inroads federally, and lack of bipartisan savvy politically in formulation organizational esteem and independence. Too negative.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2015While the intentions of this book are great, the author does not follow through or deliver on what she sets out to tell in the book. Way too much focus on one woman's story- not a good example of oral history and definitely not a good example of giving a voice to the voiceless or previously invisible subjects she claims to be writing for.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2022Should have rented this instead
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- Dr. Shimon de ValenciaReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging and revelatory
Written in a style that suits the interested general reader, as well as academics interested in the history of Chicana feminism, this book is a pleasure to read. Never shying away from telling the story behind modern Chicano feminism, it deserves a place on your shelves, or in your tablet.