Chicana Movidas

This collection, like the Chicanas who challenged sexism during the Civil Rights Era, is anything but passive. There's nothing out there like it. Ms. Magazine

A riveting collection of essays and testimonios that set out to remember that which has been lost in the fire, the lineage of Chicana feminist visionary insurgencies...Chicana Movidas is vital reading to a vast array of academic disciplines and popular audiences interested in culture and history. It weaves a tapestry of recetas through which to recover and assert retrofitted Chicana memory praxis that tells the stories of Chicana feminisms in constant motion and imagination, provocation and movement. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Chicana Movidas makes a strong contribution to movement studies, as well as its feminist intentions…This collections marks how bearing witness to a movement and writing from the individual 'I' can be a key movida that inspires others to voice and incites other strategies for social change. La Bloga

We are witnessing a new racial and social movement, and Chicana Movidas serves as the perfect companion to the new Chicana revolution...Focusing on multiple subjects, from race to gender and sexuality, this anthology serves as a refreshing contribution to social activism and identity equality. Latinx Spaces

A landmark anthology. New Books Network: Latino Studies

[A] timely and important book...The twenty-one scholarly essays, testimonies, and interviews included in this collection build on the work of pioneering Chicana feminist scholars, activists, and artists as they both trouble the construction of a homogeneous Chicana feminist subject by Chicano and feminist movement historiography and point to new and important lines of inquiry in Chicana feminist studies. Latino Studies

Chicana Movidas is the collection to advance the history of Chicanas and the historiography of the Chicano movement into the twenty-first century…masterful. Pacific Historical Review

Chicana Movidas is a ceremonial discovery of powerful women who, through varied and diverse acts of mobilization, excavated spaces for Chicanas to thrive before, during, and after the Chicano movement era. This collection of first-person accounts, critical investigations, and interviews paints a vivid, detailed, and deeply personal picture of how these Chicana activists fostered spaces to express their complex identities, fight for their unique concerns, and make social change...all Chicanas deserve the ceremony of reading this book, not only to honor themselves and the women who grace the pages, but to heal, rejuvenate, and tap into a powerful collective consciencia. Chiricú Journal

Chicana Movidas challenges us to think more capaciously about the development of Chicana feminism and about movement history more generally. As this stunning collection offers us examples of the small acts that have helped to construct radical versions of feminism, it also provides considerable organizing insights for emerging activists who value anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and queer perspectives. Angela Y. Davis

A revelatory, energetic mixtape of memory, theory, and movidas. Essential reading in Chicana/o studies. Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America