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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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