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Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement (Chicana Matters Series)
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 the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos engaged in widespread protest in their struggle for social justice, civil rights, a...more
Paperback, 300 pages
Published
August 1st 2011
by University of Texas Press
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Jan 17, 2012
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Maylei Blackwell offers one of the most satisfying feminist histories I’ve read in a long time. The book is ostensibly “the first book-length study of women in the Chicano movement” (3). Yet, as Vicki Ruiz points out Blackwell’s use of critical theory is “deployed with such insight and verve.” Blackwell uses the historical narrative to transform not only the accepted genealogy of the Chicano Movement and the rise of Women of Color Feminisms, but to challenge the way we conceptualize oral history...more
Fascinating.
Apr 13, 2013
Michelle Vasquez
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