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...Teresa Córdova Abstract During the 1980s and 1990s, a critical mass of Chicana feminist scholars established a space and a voice to express an identity of opposition. This paper is an overview of Chicana Studies writings since 1991, emphasizing the pain, recovery, and celebration expressed...

..., Mary S. Pardo provides a mucll needed class analysis as well as gellder focus on Chicana activists and political struggle withitl the context of growing income inequality and social polarization? Our collectioll begins with "Anti-Colollial Chicana Feminism" by Teresa Cordova. Her paper is an overview...

... of indigenous peoples, Chicana/os participants in Zapatista politics recall the writings of Chicana/os who theorize a different kind of neo-colonial experience. As will be discussed below, the movements that make up much of the Zapatista inspired movements consist of immigrants (documented and undocumented...

... of Chicana Studies. She is Executive Director of the Resource Center for Raza Planning, a group of researcll activists engaged in research and policy analysis on issues affecting traditional communities in New Mexico. Martha E. Gimenez is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado...

.... 24% of Native American women, 22% of Chicana and 21 % of Black married women have been sterilized, almost entirely through federally funded programs. Puerto Rico has the highest incidence of sterilization in the world, where 35.3% of women of child-bearing age have been sterilized and of these 92...

... Writings That Formed the Movement (New York: The New Press, 1995); Alma Garcia (ed), Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings (New York: Routledge, 1997); Adrien Katherine Wing (ed), Critical Race Feminism: A Reader (New York: New York University Press, 1997). @Intersectionality's...

...(ooper, "Intersectionality:' 12lbid. 13lbid. @630 Mary Hawkesworth to this burgeoning area of scholarship:"4In addition to providing a genealogy of the concept that draws in the conceptual contributions of African American, Chicana, Latina, South Asian, and Pacific Island feminist scholars and activists...

... location as contradictory. Patricia Hill Collins argues that women of color learned how multiple oppressions interacted and were mutually constitutive"in the intersections of multiple social movements:'25 In the late-twentieth century, African American and Chicana activists argued with men...

... they present. Bice and Maiguashca site the work of Chicana theorists who find that systems of oppression such as sexism, homophobia, and racism are mutually reinforcing, and they propose that more conceptual work be done to understand such dynamics. CONSTANCE G. ANTHONY Seattle University, USA © 2011 Connie...