Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

by Dionne Espinoza (Editor)

Winner, Best Multiauthor Nonfiction Book, International Latino Book Awards, 2019 With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays in Chicana New Narratives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era demonstrate how Chicanas enacted a new kind of politica at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and developed innovative concepts, tactics, and methodologies that in turn generated new theories, art forms, organizational spaces, and strategies of alliance. These are the technologies of resistance documented in Chicana Movidas , a volume that brings together critical biographies of Chicana activists and their bodies of work; essays that focus on understudied organizations, mobilizations, regions, and subjects; examinations of emergent Chicana archives and the politics of collection; and scholarly approaches that challenge the temporal, political, heteronormative, and spatial limits of established Chicano movement narratives. Charting the rise of a field of knowledge that crosses the boundaries of Chicano studies, feminist theory, and queer theory, Chicana New Narratives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era offers a transgenerational perspective on the intellectual and political legacies of early Chicana feminism.

Genres: Feminism, Nonfiction, Essays, Anti Racist

488 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2018

Reviews

[Aida · Rating 5 out of 5]

I truly loved this book! From a critical standpoint, but a personal one as well. The essays and discussions and testimonios are so deeply and thoughtfully written. They ask big questions about the future, and fill in blank spaces about the past. As a Chicana, I felt my history come alive and as if I was being spoken to. The geographic range of the book is wide and diverse, and I felt so represented in these pages. I'm so thankful for the work done with this book. But I hope that not just Chicanas read this book, but others, because knowing our history (herstory) is necessary for all of us.

[Danica is Booked · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit dense but informative. It read like a bunch of well-researched and well-written scholarly essays like people would have written in grad school etc.

Some essays I liked better than others. Not what I was expecting. Still enjoyed.

[V · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn’t read all because ‘‘twas a textbook for school and didn’t have time for it all but I enjoyed what I read!