Lourdes Portillo

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo sees her mission as "channeling the hopes and dreams of a people." Clearly, political commitment has inspired her choice of... Lees meer

The Wounded Heart

Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• In her work as poet, essayist, editor, dramatist, and public intellectual, Chicana lesbian writer Cherríe Moraga has been extremely influential in cur... Lees meer

Beyond Machismo

Aída Hurtado, Mrinal Sinha

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicana Matters
• Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo--a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other po... Lees meer

Wild Tongues

Rita E Urquijo-Ruiz

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• Tracing the configuration of the slapstick, destitute Peladita/Peladito and the Pachuca/Pachuco (depicted in flashy zoot suits) from 1928 to 2004, Wil... Lees meer

Making a Killing

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have been murdered in Ciudad Juárez across the border from El Paso, Texas. At least a third have be... Lees meer

Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture

Ellie D Hernández

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• In recent decades, Chicana/o literary and cultural productions have dramatically shifted from a nationalist movement that emphasized unity to one that... Lees meer

Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory

Emma Pérez

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• Runner-up, Best Historical Fiction in English, Latino Book Awards Competition, 2010 This literary adventure takes place in nineteenth-century Texas an... Lees meer

Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me?

Bárbara Renaud González

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• Runner-up, Best Popular Fiction in English, Latino Book Awards Competition, 2010 The golondrina is a small and undistinguished swallow. But in Spanish... Lees meer

With Her Machete in Her Hand

Catriona Rueda Esquibel

• Paperback | Chicana Matters
• The first history of Chicana lesbian writing from the 1970s until today. Lees meer

The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras

Tey Diana Rebolledo

• Paperback | Chicana Matters
• A series of wide-ranging essays on the growth--and marginalization--of Chicana/Latina literature, criticism, and art. Lees meer

Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas

Anna Marie Sandoval

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• Weaving strands of Chicana and Mexicana subjectivities, Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas explores political and theoretical agendas, particula... Lees meer

Fertile Matters

Elena R Gutiérrez

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• While the stereotype of the persistently pregnant Mexican-origin woman is longstanding, in the past fifteen years her reproduction has been targeted a... Lees meer

Private Women, Public Lives

Bárbara O Reyes

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• Through the lives and works of three women in colonial California, Bárbara O. Reyes examines frontier mission social spaces and their relationship to ... Lees meer

This Land Was Mexican Once

Linda Heidenreich

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• The territory of Napa County, California, contains more than grapevines. The deepest roots belong to Wappo-speaking peoples, a group whose history has... Lees meer

Beyond Machismo

Aída Hurtado, Mrinal Sinha

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo--a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other po... Lees meer

¡Chicana Power!

Maylei Blackwell

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• 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 th... Lees meer

Teatro Chicana

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• Winner, Susan Koppelman Award, Best Edited Volume in Women's Studies in Popular and American Culture, 2008 The 1970s and 1980s saw the awakening of so... Lees meer

Shakin' Up Race and Gender

Marta E Sánchez

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. In the years ... Lees meer

Performing Mexicanidad

Laura G Gutiérrez

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• Using interdisciplinary performance studies and cultural studies frameworks, Laura G. Gutiérrez examines the cultural representation of queer sexualit... Lees meer

Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration

Luz María Gordillo

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• Weaving narratives with gendered analysis and historiography of Mexicans in the Midwest, Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration examines the ... Lees meer

Our Lady of Controversy

• Boek | Engels | Chicana Matters
• Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone ... Lees meer

Blood Lines

Sheila Marie Contreras

• Paperback | Engels | Chicana Matters
• 2009 -- Runner-up, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies Blood Li... Lees meer

Performing Mexicanidad

Laura G. Gutierrez

• Hardcover | Chicana Matters
• Using interdisciplinary performance studies and cultural studies frameworks, this title examines the cultural representation of queer sexuality in the... Lees meer

Making a Killing

• Hardcover | Chicana Matters
• Bringing together diverse perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, critical race theory, semiotics & textual analysis, this is the first anthology t... Lees meer