Midterm chicana studies

Guillermina Gina Nunez; moved around with family working the seasonal crops, white children through rocks at her and siblings, never felt like she had a true homeland..

still waits to find a place that she feels 'rooted'

Patricia Zavella; how the breakdown of classifying people of Hispanic dissent; traditional culture has made woman try and fit into already set ideals;categorizaiton

Gloria Anzaldua; interviewed woman on what they thought made them Chicana; people judged on who is most 'real'

Aido Hurtado; woman interviews Hispanic females to compare and contrast their lives, personal versus social identity

Omi and Winant; use of race in public policy, definition of race as a concept of classification,

Serena Nanda; key theme of sex versus gender, how euro world views male female roles, and sexual orientation

Serena Nanda; Native Ameri more fluid sense of sexuality, 'Berdache',3 or 4 genders: men, women, male variants, female variants,

Antonia Castaneda; Junipero Serra spoke about the rape and abuse of native women by Spanish soldiers, abuse was hurting the spread of Catholicism and nothing was being done to control it,

Elena Poniatowska; women who fought in the Mexican Revolution, soldiers would bring wives with them so wives could take care of the men, if man had no wife he would steal women as he traveled and fought,

Maria Raquel Casas; native woman Victoria Barolomea married eropean Hugo Reid at San Gabriel mission, when Hugo died Vic had control over land, was swindled out of land by Jim McKinley, had risen to Dona but died a Sqaw

Maria Herrera Sobek; patriarchal ideology in songs and games, kids games and songs are literary texts, present women in bad light

Domino Renee Perez; story of La Llorona ( weeping/wailing woman), dies of lonliness, threatening story told to frighten kids to behave

Rafael G. Castro; sold into slavery, became Cortes translator, she told Cortes about a surprise attack that saved him but ended up killing a ton of indians, 'defamation of her character is equal to the denigration of Chicanas'

Clifford Krauss; Cortes' Indian Traitor mistress ' root of much of the disdain Mexican men display toward Mexican women' ' all that is wrong with Mexico' La Malinche's

Aida Hurtado; strict dating guidlines, family's honored was tied to girl's virginity, menstraution and bc were not discussed

Karen Mary Davalos; gender and ethnic identities, represents girl's becoming a woman, been Americanized, was banned because of what it represented/cath church didn't support it

Yolanda Chaves Leyva; 'what silences held within them','complexity of silence' depends on family but urgency of needing lesbians to speak out

Antonia Hernandez; gave women's interviews about how they had been tricked and forced into having their tubes tied, laws that were put in place to help, but the aim of stopping chicana reproduction

Deena J Gonzalez; horrific song sang nowadays, represents how woman are still held down by male traditions

born and raised in Mexico, primarily identifies with Mexico

woman of both Mexican and American ethnic heritage

1950-51 Miner's strike in New Mexico

- main character in SofE; loves her radio, has two children and new baby; husband Ramon rules her conservatively

1910-30 : fleeing Mex revolution, came to fam already in America, Mex American War 1931-34: Mexican's blamed for Great Depression 'repatriated' 1941-45 : labor issued, many came to work, needed more people in labor force bc of war

anatomy, Male or Feminine sexual organs

the social characteristics identifying a person as masculine or feminine in a given place and time

constructed and hierarchical social relations subordinating women to men

the commingling of social influence in personal experience and/or social outcomes

policy of extending a country's power and influence upon others through diplomacy or military force

encounter with difference, with 'otherness'

hierarchical group relations established through violence

hierarchical relations via construction of 'common sense' norms and practices

capacity to make choices and to act upon those choices, an achievement not a trait, can be aided or thwarted by circumstances