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meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (American Crossroads) (Volume 12) by Rosa Linda Fregoso; NetLibrary, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (American Crossroads) (Volume 12) about?

meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers are the recent murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juárez; transborder feminist texts that deal with private, domestic forms of violence; how films like John Sayles's Lone Star re-center white masculinity; and the significance of la familia to the identity of Chicanas/os and how it can subordinate gender and sexuality to masculinity and heterosexual roles. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.

Who reads meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (American Crossroads) (Volume 12)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Rosa Linda Fregoso; NetLibrary, Inc
Publisher
University of California Press
Published
2003
Language
EN
ISBN
9780520937284
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Social Science, History
Rating
3.67 / 5 (33 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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