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Telling to live [electronic resource] : Latina feminist testimonios / the Latina feminist group, Luz del Alba Acevedo ... [et al.].
Author
Latina Feminist Group
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
Description
1 online resource (399 p.)
Availability
Available Online
e-Duke Books Gender Studies Collection 2016
e-Duke Books Latin American Studies Collection 2016
JSTOR DDA
Details
Subject(s)
Hispanic American women
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Social conditions
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Anecdotes
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Hispanic American feminists
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Biography
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Anecdotes
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Sex discrimination against women
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United States
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Anecdotes
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United States
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Ethnic relations
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Anecdotes
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Related name
Acevedo, Luz del Alba
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Series
Latin America otherwise.
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Summary note
An anthology of testimonials from Latina/Chicana feminists - some of whom are well known - which give insight into their personal life experiences and break barriers and assumptions.
Notes
Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references ([357]-372).
Language note
English
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Papelitos guardados : theorizing Latinidades through testimonio
I. Genealogies of empowerment
Certified organic intellectual / Aurora Levins Morales
My father's hands / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz
Vignettes of a working-class Puerto Rican girl in Brooklyn, New York / Celia Alvarez
Silence begins at home / Patricia Zavella
You speak Spanish because you are Jewish? / Rina Benmayor
Getting there Cuando no hay camino / Norma E. Cantú
Reflection and rebirth : the evolving life of a Latina academic / Iris Ofelia López
Mi primera amiguita : Carmelita / Gloria Holguín Cuádraz
The house that Mamá Biela built / Daisy Cocco De Filippis
Lightning / Mirtha N. Quintanales
My name is this story / Aurora Levins Morales
Resisting the alchemy of erasure : journey to labor ideas / Clara Lomas
Esta risa no es de loca / Caridad Souza
A Escondidas : a Chicana feminist teacher who writes/a Chicana feminist writer who teaches / Norma E. Cantú
Canto de mi madre/canto de mi padre / Inés Hernández Avila
Daughter of bootstrap / Luz del Alba Acevedo
Beyond survival : a politics/poetics of Puerto Rican consciousness / Liza Fiol-Matta
I can fly : of dreams and other nonfictions / Eliana Rivero --
II. Alchemies of erasure
The Christmas present / Caridad Souza
Snapshots from my daze in school / Celia Alvarez
Point of departure / Mirtha N. Quintanales
Another way to grow up Puerto Rican / Liza Fiol-Mata
El beso / Ruth Behar
The prize of a new Cadillac / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz
La tra(d)ición / Latina anónima
Between perfection and invisibility / Latina anónima
Diary of La Llorona with a Ph.D. / Gloria Holguín Cuádraz
Welcome to the ivory tower / Latina anónima
I still don't know why / Latina anónima
Lessons learned from an assistant professor / Gloria Holguín Cuádraz
Don't you like being in the university? / Latina anónima
Temporary Latina / Ruth Behar
Dispelling the Sombras, grito mi nombre con rayos de luz / Inés Hernándex Avila
Biting through / Latina anónima
Sand from Varadero Beach / Ruth Behar
Speaking among friends : who empowerment, whose resistance? / Luz del Alba Acevedo --
III. The body re/members
Reading the body / Norma E. Cantú
Missing body / Caridad Souza
Malabareando/juggling / Liza Fiol-Matta
Migraine/jaqueca / Norma E. Cantú
The wart / Daisy Cocco De Filippis
Why my ears aren't pierced / Ruth Behar
Night terrors / Latina anónima
La princesa / Latina anónima
Forced by circumstance / Norma Alarcón
Let me sleep / Latina anónima
Depression / Mirtha N. Quintanales
Desde el Diván : testimonios from the couch / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz
Telling to live : devoro la mentira, resucitando mi ser / Inés Hernández Avila --
IV. Passion, desires, and celebrations
Shameless desire / Aurora Levins Morales
La cosa / Ruth Behar
Boleros / Eliana Rivero
A working-class Bruja's fears and desires / Norma E. Cantú
Aún / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz
The names I used to call you/the names I do call you / Eliana Rivero
Plátanos and palms / Rina Benmayor
Three penny opera or Eve's symphony in B minor / Daisy Cocco De Filippis
Descubrimiento(s) / Celia Alvarez
Entre nosotras / Latina anónima
Pisco and cranberry / Eliana Rivero
De lo que es amor, de lo que es vida / Inés Hernández Avila
Eating mango / Liza Fiol-Matta
Everyday grace / Mirtha N. Quintanales
Tenemos que seguir luchando / Patricia Zavella.
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ISBN
1-283-06313-1
9786613063137
0-8223-8328-4
OCLC
245538712
1142384795
1170144744
Doi
10.1515/9780822383284
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