Irene I. Blea

U.S. Chicanas and Latinas Within a Global Context

Women of Color at the Fourth World Women's Conference

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using her observations of the United Nation's Fourth World Women's Conference held in China in 1995 as a foundation, the author examines the history and current situation of Latinas and attempts to place them in a global context. After examining the goals, objectives, and atmosphere of the Conference, she analyzes the Chicana feminist movement and its legacy and how Chicanas have struggled to relate to the Conference and its human rights platform. She then profiles U.S. Latinas and presents data on their reality in today's world. The response to U.S. expansionist policies and the Americanization process is examined and related to the Chicana feminist movement and its legacy. An important synthesis for students and researchers in Ethnic and Race Relations and Women's Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780275956240
• ISBN-10: 0275956245
• Artikelnr.: 21909072

Autorenporträt

IRENE ISABEL BLEA is the chairperson of the Department of Chicano Studies at California State University in Los Angeles. Blea received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado and has been affiliated with the University of New Mexico, University of Texas at Austin, and Metropolitan State College of Denver. Her previous books include La Chicana and the Intersection of Race, Class and Gender(Praeger, 1991), Bessemer: A Sociological Perspective of a Chicano Barrio(1991), and Toward A Chicano Social Science (Praeger, 1988).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women Struggling to
Participate Defining Chicana Feminism Cultural Sovereignty The Feminization
of Racism: Challenging a Colonial Legacy Existing in a State of
Colonialization U.S. Expansion and Resistance to the Americanization
Process Chicana Feminist Movement Decentralizing White Patriarchy Selected
Bibliography Index