Telling to live, Latina feminist testimonios, the Latina feminist group, Luz del Alba Acevedo [and others]
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- Sex discrimination against women
- Sex discrimination against women -- United States -- Anecdotes
- Ethnic relations
- Hispanic American women + Social conditions
- Hispanic American feminists -- Biography -- Anecdotes
- Biography -- Anecdotes
- Hispanic American feminists
- United States -- Ethnic relations -- Anecdotes
- United States
- Hispanic American women + Social conditions -- Anecdotes
- Anecdotes
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Telling to live, Latina feminist testimonios, the Latina feminist group, Luz del Alba Acevedo [and others]
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references ([357]-372)
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Telling to live
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
46866215
Responsibility statement
the Latina feminist group, Luz del Alba Acevedo [and others]
Series statement
Latin America otherwise
Sub title
Latina feminist testimonios
Summary
An anthology of testimonials from Latina/Chicana feminists, some of whom are well known and some anonymous, provides insight into their personal life experiences and breaks barriers and assumptions
Table of contents
Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Papelitos guardados : theorizing Latinidades through testimonio -- I. Genealogies of empowerment -- Certified organic intellectual / Aurora Levins Morales -- My father's hands / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz -- Vignettes of a working-class Puerto Rican girl in Brooklyn, New York / Celia Alvarez -- Silence begins at home / Patricia Zavella -- You speak Spanish because you are Jewish? / Rina Benmayor -- Getting there Cuando no hay camino / Norma E. Cantú -- Reflection and rebirth : the evolving life of a Latina academic / Iris Ofelia López -- Mi primera amiguita : Carmelita / Gloria Holguín Cuádraz -- The house that Mamá Biela built / Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Lightning / Mirtha N. Quintanales -- My name is this story / Aurora Levins Morales -- Resisting the alchemy of erasure : journey to labor ideas / Clara Lomas -- Esta risa no es de loca / Caridad Souza -- A Escondidas : a Chicana feminist teacher who writes/a Chicana feminist writer who teaches / Norma E. Cantú -- Canto de mi madre/canto de mi padre / Inés Hernández Avila -- Daughter of bootstrap / Luz del Alba Acevedo -- Beyond survival : a politics/poetics of Puerto Rican consciousness / Liza Fiol-Matta -- I can fly : of dreams and other nonfictions / Eliana RiveroII. Alchemies of erasure -- The Christmas present / Caridad Souza -- Snapshots from my daze in school / Celia Alvarez -- Point of departure / Mirtha N. Quintanales -- Another way to grow up Puerto Rican / Liza Fiol-Mata -- El beso / Ruth Behar -- The prize of a new Cadillac / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz -- La tra(d)ición / Latina anónima -- Between perfection and invisibility / Latina anónima -- Diary of La Llorona with a Ph. D. / Gloria Holguín Cuádraz -- Welcome to the ivory tower / Latina anónima -- I still don't know why / Latina anónima -- Lessons learned from an assistant professor / Gloria Holguín Cuádraz -- Don't you like being in the university? / Latina anónima -- Temporary Latina / Ruth Behar -- Dispelling the Sombras, grito mi nombre con rayos de luz / Inés Hernándex Avila -- Biting through / Latina anónima -- Sand from Varadero Beach / Ruth Behar -- Speaking among friends : who empowerment, whose resistance? / Luz del Alba AcevedoIII. The body re/members -- Reading the body / Norma E. Cantú -- Missing body / Caridad Souza -- Malabareando/juggling / Liza Fiol-Matta -- Migraine/jaqueca / Norma E. Cantú -- The wart / Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Why my ears aren't pierced / Ruth Behar -- Night terrors / Latina anónima -- La princesa / Latina anónima -- Forced by circumstance / Norma Alarcón -- Let me sleep / Latina anónima -- Depression / Mirtha N. Quintanales -- Desde el Diván : testimonios from the couch / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz -- Telling to live : devoro la mentira, resucitando mi ser / Inés Hernández AvilaIV. Passion, desires, and celebrations -- Shameless desire / Aurora Levins Morales -- La cosa / Ruth Behar -- Boleros / Eliana Rivero -- A working-class Bruja's fears and desires / Norma E. Cantú -- Aún / Yvette Gisele Flores-Ortiz -- The names I used to call you/the names I do call you / Eliana Rivero -- Plátanos and palms / Rina Benmayor -- Three penny opera or Eve's symphony in B minor / Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Descubrimiento(s) / Celia Alvarez -- Entre nosotras / Latina anónima -- Pisco and cranberry / Eliana Rivero -- De lo que es amor, de lo que es vida / Inés Hernández Avila -- Eating mango / Liza Fiol-Matta -- Everyday grace / Mirtha N. Quintanales -- Tenemos que seguir luchando / Patricia Zavella
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