La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman

by Alfredo Mirande and Evangelina Enriquez

Book Overview

La Chicana is the story of a marginal group in society, neither fully Mexican or fully American, who suffer under triple oppression: as women, as members of a colonized culture, and as victims of a cultural heritage dominated by the cult of machismo. Tracing the role of Chicanas from pre-Columbian society to the present, the authors reveal the antecedents and roots of contemporary cultural expectations in Aztec, colonial, and revolutionary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000L9U4BK
• ISBN13: 9780226531601
• Release Date: March 1981
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"