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Beyond Machismo
Intersectional Latino Masculinities
By Aída Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha
University of Texas Press
Challenging prevailing notions of Latino machismo, sexism, and homogeneity, this book demonstrates how education, life experiences, and exposure to feminist ideas are changing the norms, values, and perceptions of young Latino men and their communities.
Wild Tongues
Transnational Mexican Popular Culture
University of Texas Press
An innovative application of four social types—the downtrodden Peladita/Peladito and the zoot-suited Pachuca/Pachuco—that illuminates working-class subjects in a broad spectrum of Mexican and Mexican American cultural production.
¡Chicana Power!
Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
University of Texas Press
Drawing on a wealth of oral histories from pioneering Chicana activists, as well as the vibrant print culture through which they articulated their agenda and built community, this book presents the first full-scale investigation of the social and politica
Our Lady of Controversy
Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition”
Edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López
University of Texas Press
An anthology of vibrant responses to Alma López’s controversial print Our Lady, exploring critical issues of censorship, religion, and the female body.
Making a Killing
Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera
Edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Georgina Guzmán
University of Texas Press
Bringing together diverse perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, critical race theory, semiotics, and textual analysis, this is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the murders of more than five hundred women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration
Engendering Transnational Ties
University of Texas Press
A fascinating study of the transnational experiences of Mexicans who immigrated from San Ignacio Cerro Gordo, Jalisco, to Detroit, Michigan.
Performing Mexicanidad
Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage
University of Texas Press
An examination of the intersection of public discourses on sexualities with recent political, economic, and social shifts in the national context of Mexico and the Mexican diaspora in the United States.
Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory
A Novel
By Emma Pérez
University of Texas Press
The story of a Tejana lesbian cowgirl after the fall of the Alamo as she journeys through her own Brokeback Mountain.
Private Women, Public Lives
Gender and the Missions of the Californias
University of Texas Press
A study of three women’s lives in colonial California and what they reveal about gendered colonial relations and power hierarchies.
Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture
University of Texas Press
Offering a new interpretation of cultural nationalism in Chicana/o identity, this provocative work examines the relationship between globalization and the rise of feminism and gay/lesbian activism.