meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (American Crossroads, 12)
by Rosa Linda Fregoso
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Author: Rosa Linda FregosoEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-12-04
ISBN: 0520238907
Number of pages: 238
Publisher: University of California Press
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Book Review: A vital contribution to studies of the border, gender and the mass media
Summary: 5 Stars
The reader accompanies Fregoso on a passionate stream of close analysis and brilliant social critique. She reviews the ways that movies, fiction, and other cultural products continue to mark the lives of women on the border with oppresive myths of national and personal identity. Her cultural criticism covers, but is not limited to, mainstream movie portrayals of Chicana swomen, Mexican and American coverage of the Ciudad Juarez feminicides and some Chicano concepts of family and manhood. Fregoso is an important voice in the fields of both gender studies/women studies, and media studies, but this is just her standpoint, her expertise. The implications of her work ripple throughout all of contemporary critical theory.
Summary of meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (American Crossroads, 12)
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 like John Sayles's Lone Star re-center white masculinity; and the significance of la familia to the identity of Chicanas/os and how it can subordinate gender and sexuality to masculinity and heterosexual roles. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.Gay & Lesbian Books
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