| Description |
269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index. |
| Contents |
Chicana life-cycle rituals / Norma E. Cantú -- Art of the santera / Helen R. Lucero -- The indita genre of New Mexico : gender and cultural identification / Brenda M. Romero -- Danger! children at play : patriarchal ideology and the construction of gender in Spanish language Hispanic/Chicano children's songs and games / María Herrera-Sobek -- Caminando con la llorona : traditional and contemporary narratives / Domino Renée Pérez -- Indianizing Catholicism : Chicana/India/Mexicana indigenous spiritual practices in our image / Yolanda Broyles-González -- Las que menos queria el niño : women of the Fidencista movement / Cynthia L. Vidaurri -- Transgressing the taboo : a Chicana's voice in the mariachi world / Leonor Xóchitl Pérez -- Meeting la cantante through verse, song, and performance / Cándida F. Jáquez -- Ranchera music(s) and the legendary Lydia Mendoza : performing social location and relations / Yolanda Broyles-González -- Mounting traditions : the origin and evolution of la escarmuza charra / Olga Nájera-Ramírez -- Cruzando frontejas : Selena, Tejano music and the politics of "crossover" / Deborah R. Vargas -- Goldie Garcia : la reina de South Broadway y rasquache / Tey Marianna Nunn. |
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Mexican American women -- Social life and customs.
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Mexican American women -- Social life and customs. |
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Mexican American women. |
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Mexican American women -- Intellectual life.
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Mexican American women -- Intellectual life. |
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Mexican American arts.
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Mexican American arts. |
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Mexican American women -- Folklore.
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| Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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| Subject |
Feminism -- United States.
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Feminism. |
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United States. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Added Author |
Cantú, Norma E., 1947-
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Nájera-Ramírez, Olga.
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| ISBN |
0252070127 paper alkaline paper |
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0252027019 alkaline paper |
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