One of America's leading interpreters of the Chicana experience dismantles the discourses that "frame" women who rebel against patriarchal strictures as "bad women" and offers empowering models of struggle, resistance, and rebirth.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: activist scholarship and the historical vortex of the "bad woman" -- The politics of location of la decima musa: prelude to an Interview -- Malinche's revenge -- There's no place like Aztlan: homeland myths and embodied aesthetics -- Coyolxauhqui and las "maqui-locas": re-membering the sacrificed daughters of Ciudad Juarez -- Mapping the labyrinth: the anti-detective novel and the mysterious missing brother -- Devil in a rose bikini: the inquisition continues -- The Sor Juana chronicles.
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