| Author |
Hind, Emily.
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| Title |
Femmenism and the Mexican woman intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska : boob lit / Emily Hind. |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| OCLC |
515439230 |
| ISBN |
9780230104464 (hc) |
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0230104460 (hc) |
| Publisher |
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. |
| Description |
xii, 268 pages ; 22 cm. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Mexican literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Anti-feminism -- Mexico.
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Feminism and literature -- Mexico.
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Women and literature -- Mexico.
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Women authors, Mexican -- 20th century.
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Mexican literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Feminist criticism -- Mexico.
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Women -- Mexico -- Identity.
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Women intellectuals -- Mexico.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"There is a large portion of young women in both US and Mexican university classrooms today who do not self-identify as feminists. Hind makes steps to correct this and draws on poetry, short stories, plays, novels, photographs, personal correspondence, advertising, and interviews to make visible the anti-feminine tendencies in femenism and to imagine a femmenism that will appeal to the next generation of women"--Provided by publisher. |
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"From poetry, short stories, plays, novels, photographs, personal correspondence, advertising, and interviews, Boob Lit. draws on both well-known and nearly forgotten materials to make visible the anti-feminine tendencies in femenism and to imagine a femmenism that might appeal to the startling numbers of young women in US and Mexican university classrooms today who do not self-identify as feminists. Catwoman, the cabrona, the diva-lectual, Barbie, the compulsory asexual, the clothes mind, the Boob, and the "beard" are just some of the swishy responses that Boob Lit. proposes as a response to the metonymic threat* of having boobs. *(Having boobs might make you one.) "--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction * Your Maternity Or Your Mind: False Choices for Mexican Woman Intellectuals * Asexuality and the Woman Writer: Queering a Compliant Castellanos * Amor, Garro, and Rivas Mercado as Diva-lectuals * Poniatowska as Bearded Lady * On Barbie, the Boob, and Loaeza. |
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