A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010
10 best books like A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010 (Cherríe L. Moraga): I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings, The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability, Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism, Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War, Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma, Methodology of the Oppressed, Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings, I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0195341481 |
Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the arts, parenting, and resistance, and they have...
The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
| Author | Kristen Hogan |
| ISBN | 0822361299 |
From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism's most complex conversations. Kristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and eventual fall, restoring its radical work to public feminist...
Making Space for Indigenous Feminism
| Author | Joyce Green |
| ISBN | 1842779400 |
The majority of scholarly and activist opinion by and about Indigenous women claims that feminism is irrelevant for them. Yet there is also an articulate, theoretically informed and activist constituency that identifies as feminist.
This book is by and about Indigenous feminists, whose...
Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism
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When feminism itself becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say about it? Western notions of polite discourse are not the norm for all of us, and just because we’ve got some new and hot language lately in equity-seeking movements like feminism...
| Author | Aurora Levins Morales |
| ISBN | 0896085813 |
South End Press sent out a call for manuscripts to selected writers in late 1997 or early 1998. I was in the middle of finishing my book Remedios, and consulted my other and collaborator about whether to take it on. She said to do it, but not worry, to write a B+ book not strive for A+. As a result, I wrote it easily,...
Here's another book that I read for a class that I otherwise would never have attempted. I'm glad, I think, that I put my head down and staggered through Susan Griffin's A Chorus of Stones, but it's a book that takes a toll.
Here's a happy thought: a lot has already been written about...
| Author | Ana Castillo |
| ISBN | 0452274249 |
The "I" in these critical essays by novelist, poet, scholar, and activist/curandera Ana Castillo is that of the Mexic-Amerindian woman living in the United States. The essays are addressed to everyone interested in the roots of the colonized woman's reality. Castillo introduces the term Xicanisma...
| Author | Chela Sandoval |
| ISBN | 0816627371 |
In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.What...
| Author | Alma M. García |
| ISBN | 0415918014 |
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| Author | Maria M. Ebrahimji |
| ISBN | 1935952005 |
Muslim American women are the subject of endless discussions regarding their role in society, their veils as symbols of oppression or of freedom, their identity, their patriotism, their womanhood. Yet the voices and life experiences of Muslim American women themselves are rarely heard in the...
| Author | Richard Blanco |
| ISBN | 0822962012 |
Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel, is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family’s emotion legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three...
| Author | Rigoberto González |
| ISBN | 0299219003 |
Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable.
Growing up among poor migrant Mexican...
| Author | Robin L. Riley |
| ISBN | 1848130198 |
Women across the globe are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by the USA. But there has been little public space for dialogue about the complex relationship between feminism, women, and war.
The editors of Feminism and War have brought together a diverse set of leading theorists...
Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
| Author | Jennifer Nelson |
| ISBN | 0814758274 |
While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive control for women centered solely on abortion rights, for many women abortion was not the only, or even primary, focus.
Jennifer Nelson tells the story of the feminist struggle for legal abortion and reproductive...
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
| Author | Chandra Talpade Mohanty |
| ISBN | 0253206324 |
"The essays are provocative and enhance knowledge of Third World women's issues. Highly recommended... " --Choice
..". the book challenges assumptions and pushes historic and geographical boundaries that must be altered if women of all colors are to win the struggles thrust upon us by the...
500 Years of Chicana Women's History/500 Años de la Mujer Chicana
| Author | Elizabeth Martínez |
| ISBN | 0813542243 |
Named the 2009 AAUP Best of the Best - Outstanding Book Distinction
The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to...
Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave
| Author | Benita Roth |
| ISBN | 0521529727 |
This book is about the development of white women's liberation, black feminism and Chicana feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, the era known as the "second wave" of U.S. feminist protest. Benita Roth explores the ways that feminist movements emerged from the Civil Rights/Black Liberation movement,...
Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicana and Chicano Literature
| Author | Cristina García |
| ISBN | 1400077184 |
As the descendants of Mexican immigrants have settled throughout the United States, a great literature has emerged, but its correspondances with the literature of Mexico have gone largely unobserved. In Bordering Fires, the first anthology to combine writing from both sides of the Mexican-U.S....
Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality
| Author | Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| ISBN | 0822359774 |
Written during the last decade of her life, Light in the Dark represents the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Throughout, Anzaldúa weaves personal narratives into deeply engaging theoretical readings to comment on...
The Last Cigarette on Earth
| Author | Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
| ISBN | 1941026656 |
A major Latino writer’s intimate but healing journey through addiction, human desire and broken love.
From "He Leaves a Message in the Middle of the Night"
He loved beer
and crack. He loved heroin, ecstasy, the sad music
of the bars. He said he loved you too. You are
thinking...
| Author | Robert McRuer |
| ISBN | 0822351544 |
The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in disability studies do not discuss sex in much...
The Erotic Life of Racism
| Author | Sharon Patricia Holland |
| ISBN | 0822352060 |
A major intervention in the fields of critical race theory, black feminism, and queer theory, The Erotic Life of Racism contends that theoretical and political analyses of race have largely failed to understand and describe the profound ordinariness of racism and the ways that it operates as a quotidian...
A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying
| Author | Laurie Ann Guerrero |
| ISBN | 0268010471 |
Filled with the nuanced beauty and complexity of the everyday—a pot of beans, a goat carcass, embroidered linens, a grandfather’s cancer—A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying journeys through the inherited fear of creation and destruction. The histories of South Texas and its people unfold in...
