The first book-length study of women's involvement in the
Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, Chicana Power tells
the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within
student and community-based organizations throughout southern
California and the Southwest. As Chicanos engaged in widespread
protest in their struggle for social justice, civil rights, and
self-determination, women in el movimiento became increasingly
militant about the gap between the rhetoric of equality and the
organizational culture that suppressed women's leadership and
subjected women to chauvinism, discrimination, and sexual
harassment. Based on rich oral histories and extensive archival
research, Maylei Blackwell analyzes the struggles over gender and
sexuality within the Chicano Movement and illustrates how those
struggles produced new forms of racial consciousness, gender
awareness, and political identities.
Chicana Power provides a critical genealogy of pioneering
Chicana activist and theorist Anna NietoGomez and the Hijas de
Cuauhtemoc, one of the first Latina feminist organizations, who
together with other Chicana activists forged an autonomous space
for women's political participation and challenged the gendered
confines of Chicano nationalism in the movement and in the
formation of the field of Chicana studies. She uncovers the
multifaceted vision of liberation that continues to reverberate
today as contemporary activists, artists, and intellectuals, both
grassroots and academic, struggle for, revise, and rework the
political legacy of Chicana feminism.
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