..., foregrounding an alternative approach that highlights different movement dynamics and the ways L.A. Chicanas continuously bridged different realms of politics and approaches to activism to create generational, organizational, ideological, and transnational interlinkages that enabled them to effectively advocate...

...Chapter two explores the early years (1970-1976) of one of the first Chicana feminist organizations in the nation, the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional (CFMN) (National Mexican Women’s Commission). The CFMN provides an illuminating example of the ways in which a stand-alone women’s organization...

...Chapter Three explores the various ways in which Chicanas saw themselves and their place in the world, from the local to the international realms. Focusing on the experiences of Chicanas who traveled to the International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975, many of whom belonged...

...Chapter four brings into focus the struggle for reproductive justice in Los Angeles in the 1970s to explore the heterogenous Chicana feminist and non-feminist experiences and ideologies that shaped the body politics of Chicana liberation activism in the period. Chicana reproductive justice...

...This introductory chapter provides a background of Chicana/o and Latina/o literature. Chicana/o and Latina/o literature particularly demonstrate the increasing focus on empowerment—economic, political, and sexual—within Chicana/o and Latina/o America, not within Anglo-America. As such, the concept...

...This chapter outlines the development of nineteenth-century Chicana/o and Latina/o literature. Despite the critical success of the arrival text, writers engaged issues within Chicana/o and Latina/o America well before the multicultural literature boom of the 1980s. The chapter then studies Tomás...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book attempts to revitalize ecofeminist theory by investigating its intersections with other theoretical traditions, including Chicana and new materialist feminisms. To that end, it asks: What are the key debates...

... in a Chicana feminist epistemology. Using borderlands and social identity as the theoretical framework, results suggest that the school response to the youth gang problem contributed to students’ experiences of racialization and impacted their educational trajectories. The importance of teacher relationships...

...This chapter evaluates the proliferation of Chicana literature following El Movimiento. This frames the discussion of the narrative of reclamation in the Chicana novel So Far from God (1993) by Ana Castillo as well as in the Dominican American novel Soledad (2001...

... their engagement and practice of Chicana feminist ideologies. The book uncovers important and long-standing connections between women activists in Los Angeles politics and traces how these connections undergirded the multiple and competing forms of Chicana feminisms that arose in this era. By focusing on specific...

... Vietnam War Klassen Don Miller Annas Berry Lee Roy García Lupe schools Bustos María women Latina Garza Criselda ethnic nationalism Midwest discrimination Ku Klux Klan Chicana/o Movement Civil Rights Religion Mennonites Evangelicals Black/Brown Coalitions Migrant Farmworkers Latina/o...

...This study concludes with a discussion of the current state of many of the institutions that Chicanas built during the 1960s and 1970s, highlighting how bridging activism provided a foundation of political linkages, networks, and knowledges to secure their permanence. This includes the ways...

...Environmental practices among Mexican American women have spurred a reconsideration of ecofeminism among Chicana feminists. This book examines ecological themes across the arts, Chicana activism, and direct action groups to reveal how Chicanas can craft alternative models for ecofeminist processes...