Mexicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands

by Rosa Linda Fregoso

Book Overview

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 Ju rez; transborder feminist texts that deal with private, domestic forms of violence; how films...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520238907
• ISBN13: 9780520238909
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"