Bøger af Alicia Gaspar de Alba

"A native of El Paso/Ciudad Juâarez region, ... author and scholar Alicia Gaspar de Alba writes that she grew up with a 'forked tongue and a severe case of cultural schizophrenia, the split in the psyche that happens to someone who grows up in the borderlands between nations, languages and cultures.' Border dwellers struggle with place and identity in the short fiction [and essays] in this collection"--Back cover.

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. This book offers author's companeras and fellow luchadoras empowering models of struggle, resistance, and rebirth.

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz (1648-1695) was a self-taught scholar, poet, and author from San Miguel de Nepantla, Mexico. Sor Juana held discussions about natural science with intellectuals in her private suite in the Convent of San Jeronimo and spent much of her time writing on topics dealing with what are called ""women's rights.

The first interdisciplinary cultural study of a major exhibition of Chicano/a art.