¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement (Chicana Matters)
By Maylei Blackwell.
Description
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 wom...
ISBN(s)
0292726902, 9780292726901