Download or read book Latina Chicana Mothering written by Dorsía Smith Silva and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling narratives, testimonios, empirical research and literary representations on mothering make up Latina/Chicana Mothering. Dorsía Smith Silva has assembled a powerful collection of essays that get at the spirit of Chicana mothering. Diversity of thought and discipline is the beauty of this anthology as it extends the topic across studies in education, incarceration, violence, homelessness, popular culture, and feminine icons among others. This is essential reading in Chicana feminist work, women studies, ethnic studies, feminist theory, and motherhood.
Download or read book The Chicana Motherwork Anthology written by Cecilia Caballero and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicana M(other)work Anthology weaves together emerging scholarship and testimonios by and about self-identified Chicana and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies who center mothering as transformative labor through an intersectional lens. Contributors provide narratives that make feminized labor visible and that prioritize collective action and holistic healing for mother-scholars of color, their children, and their communities within and outside academia. The volume is organized in four parts: (1) separation, migration, state violence, and detention; (2) Chicana/Latina/WOC mother-activists; (3) intergenerational mothering; and (4) loss, reproductive justice, and holistic pregnancy. Contributors offer a just framework for Chicana and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies to thrive within and outside of the academy. They describe a new interpretation of motherwork that addresses the layers of care work needed for collective resistance to structural oppression and inequality. This anthology is a call to action for justice. Contributions are both theoretical and epistemological, and they offer an understanding of motherwork through Chicana and Women of Color experiences.
Download or read book The Lived Experiences of Chicana Latina Student Mothers written by MyHanh Anderson (Graduate student) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Chicana/Latina student parents are an unrecognized and silenced group within community colleges. Using interviews as a vessel for testimonios, this study examines the lessons learned from mothering by ten Chicana/Latina student mothers on their journey of academic achievement at the community college. Using Chicana feminist theory and Chicana M(other)work as theoretical and conceptual framework as lenses to understand the reality of Chicana/Latina student mothers. The student mother’s ability to balance and move in-between their Chicana/Latina, woman, mother, and student identities, along with lessons learned from mothering, provide motivation and persistence as they maneuver through the education system. Findings show that Chicana/Latina student mothers used the lessons from mothering; the value of hard work, making a home wherever you are, and the importance of adaptability as tools to attain academic goals in the pursuit for a better life for themselves and their children. Recommendations call for a federal increase in education funding; state level criteria changes to services supporting students with dependents as well as include student with dependents in all comprehensive data collection systems; and institutionally, create a more inclusive campus climate for students with dependents by recognizing their lived experiences, their testimonios.
Download or read book Contemporary Chicana Literature Re Writing the Maternal Script written by Cristina Herrera and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the growing literary scholarship on Chicana writers, few, if any, studies have exhaustively explored themes of motherhood, maternity, and mother-daughter relationships in their novels. When discussions of motherhood and mother-daughter relationships do occur in literary scholarship, they tend to mostly be a backdrop to a larger conversation on themes such as identity, space, and sexuality, for example. Mother-daughter relationships have been ignored in much literary criticism, but this book reveals that maternal relationships are crucial to the study of Chicana literature; more precisely, examining maternal relationships provides insight to Chicana writers' rejection of intersecting power structures that otherwise silence Chicanas and women of color. This book advances the field of Chicana literary scholarship through a discussion of Chicana writers' efforts to re-write the script of maternity outside of existing discourses that situate Chicana mothers as silent and passive and the subsequent mother-daughter relationship as a source of tension and angst. Chicana writers are actively engaged in the process of re-writing motherhood that resists the image of the static, disempowered Chicana mother; on the other hand, these same writers engage in broad representations of Chicana mother-daughter relationships that are not merely a source of conflict but also a means in which both mothers and daughters may achieve subjectivity. While some of the texts studied do present often conflicted relationships between mothers and their daughters, the novels do not comfortably accept this script as the rule; rather, the writers included in this study are highly invested in re-writing Chicana motherhood as a source of empowerment even as their works present strained maternal relationships. Chicana writers have challenged the pervasiveness of the problematic virgin/whore binary which has been the motif on which Chicana womanhood/motherhood has been defined, and they resist the construction of maternity on such narrow terms. Many of the novels included in this study actively foreground a conscious resistance to the limiting binaries of motherhood symbolized in the virgin/whore split. The writers critically call for a rethinking of motherhood beyond this scope as a means to explore the empowering possibilities of maternal relationships. This book is an important contribution to the fields of Chicana/Latina and American literary scholarship.
Download or read book Mothers Mothering and Motherhood Across Cultural Differences A Reader written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood across Cultural Differences, the first-ever Reader on the subject matter, examines the meaning and practice of mothering/motherhood from a multitude of maternal perspectives. The Reader includes 22 chapters on the following maternal identities: Aboriginal, Adoptive, At-Home, Birth, Black, Disabled, East-Asian, Feminist, Immigrant/Refuge, Latina/Chicana, Poor/Low Income, Migrant, Non-Residential, Older, Queer, Rural, Single, South-Asian, Stepmothers, Working, Young Mothers, and Mothers of Adult Children. Each chapter provides background and context, examines the challenges and possibilities of mothering/motherhood for each group of mothers and considers directions for future research. The first anthology to provide a comprehensive examination of mothers/mothering/ motherhood across diverse cultural locations and subject positions, the book is essential reading for maternal scholars and activists and serves as an ideal course text for a wide range of courses in Motherhood Studies.
Download or read book Our Mother s Daughters written by Lisette J. Lasater and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention to family relationships in work by Chicanas and Latinas reveals mothers as paramount figures to a daughter's identity formation. Mothers may serve as gatekeepers of patriarchy and also as a daughter's closest female role model--as a result, mother-daughter relationships may also be source of deep ambivalence. The literary and cultural study I undertake in this dissertation examines how Chicanas and Latinas find their voice through asking difficult questions of both their mothers and of the institutions that guide them. The primary texts I examine are foundational to the development of Chicana literature, feminism, and cultural criticism since the 1980's, and take into account a spectrum of mother/daughter experiences. This work considers how daughters discover their voice through and against their mothers, and how self-expression on the page and on the cultural stage are necessary sites for creation and articulation of a daughter's agency.
Download or read book Chicana Lesbians written by Carla Trujillo and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. "CHICANA LESBIANS is a love poem, a bible, a dictionary, nothing so simple as a manifesto--this book is yet another reason to believe--to believe in the girls our mothers warned us about, brown girls, lesbians, making their own love poems, bibles, dictionaries, manifestoes, reasons to believe."--Dorothy Allison "When I was selling books at a Chicana conference, I noticed book buyers were literally afraid to touch this anthology. I say now what I said then, 'Don't be scared. Sexuality is not contagious, but ignorance is.' If you've ever been curious, been there, been voyeur, been tourist, or just plain under-informed, misinformed, or unaffirmed, here is a book to listen to and learn from".--Sandra Cisneros
Download or read book The Chicana Motherwork Anthology written by Cecilia Caballero and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicana M(other)work Anthology weaves together emerging scholarship and testimonios by and about self-identified Chicana and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies who center mothering as transformative labor through an intersectional lens. Contributors provide narratives that make feminized labor visible and that prioritize collective action and holistic healing for mother-scholars of color, their children, and their communities within and outside academia. The volume is organized in four parts: (1) separation, migration, state violence, and detention; (2) Chicana/Latina/WOC mother-activists; (3) intergenerational mothering; and (4) loss, reproductive justice, and holistic pregnancy. Contributors offer a just framework for Chicana and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies to thrive within and outside of the academy. They describe a new interpretation of motherwork that addresses the layers of care work needed for collective resistance to structural oppression and inequality. This anthology is a call to action for justice. Contributions are both theoretical and epistemological, and they offer an understanding of motherwork through Chicana and Women of Color experiences.
Download or read book Overcoming Barriers written by Sarina Mendoza Ramirez and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education has gradually grown into a means of passage for upward social mobility, particularly for those who come from historically marginalized communities, such as first-generation, low-income, non-traditional, and minority college students. Latinas are the youngest, fastest growing subgroup in the nation encompassing 16% of the female population--and are the least educated (Castellanos, Gloria, & Kamimura, 2006; Motel & Patten, 2013). Latinas and other women of color "experience multiple marginality" and are often presented with additional layers of complexity in their day-to-day professional lives (Turner, 2002, p. 76). Challenges women encounter include balancing a job, a family, a career, and college responsibilities (Furst-Bowe & Dittmann, 2001; Kramarae, 2001). The point that echoes in research are the obstacles women find when they attempt dual social roles (Stalker, 2001). Research has determined success factors and barriers that first-generation Chicana/Latina women experience as students at higher education institutions as undergraduates. Studies have also identified specific barriers student mothers face as college students. However, research has yet to determine which specific barriers first generation Chicana/Latina student mothers experience in their first year of a graduate program, as well as investigate what strategies these women used to overcome those barriers. The study used a qualitative method to conduct research on first-generation Chicana/Latina student mothers who had completed their first year of a graduate program. A face-to-face interview was used with open-ended questions. Three students participated in the research. This research identified some of the shared challenges, characteristics, and experiences that first-generation Chicana/Latina mothers face during the first year of a graduate program while raising a child(ren), which were difficulty balancing multiple roles, issues with childcare, and encountering feelings of guilt. The research also identified motivational and success factors that helped this population of students persist successfully through their first year of a graduate program despite the challenges they encountered. Those motivational and success factors attributed to a strong family support system and positive self-affirmations.
Download or read book 12 Ways to Cope with Your Latina Mom and Her Difficulties written by Jasmine Cepeda and published by Jasmine Cepeda. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Psychotherapist raised and still living in the diverse mega-city that is NYC, I have helped hundreds of women from all races, ethnicities, and cultures cope with their distressing feelings and thoughts about their mothers. However, what makes me especially inclined to write about the nuanced difficulties of Latina mothers is my experience in facilitating groups with Latinx individuals (gender-neutral term for Latinas and Latinos) struggling with their mothers. Being involved in these groups has brought clarity to the similar and overarching complaints that many Latinx folks experience.The guide intends to help you explore the psychological consequences of having a mother with difficult behaviors. I also want to help you set boundaries and act towards your self-validation and self-protection. I want to help you remother (or reparent) yourself--to help you build your self-reliance, self-worth, and self-compassion. By building a better relationship with yourself, I also want to assist you in creating better relationships with others: whether it's in your friendships, romantic partnerships, or as a parent!Regarding the title of this project: I do not want to promote a false narrative that Latina moms are inherently "difficult" or all the same. Hence, I describe some of their behaviors and personality traits as "difficult," not who they are.I dedicate this guide to my Latinx community!Jasmine Cepeda is a Latinx psychotherapist working in private practice in Brooklyn.
Download or read book Cuentos Para Tonanzin written by Ruby Osoria and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three stand-alone scholarly articles, comprising of one systematic literature review and two separate empirical studies. Article one, From Institutional Exclusion to Internalized Worth: A Literature Review on Latina Immigrant Mothers' Experiences in the K-12 Education System, brings insight into the institutional barriers Latina immigrant mothers confront in the K-12 education system and the internalized impact of self-perception. Article two, Esperanza y Frustración: Mexican Immigrant Mothers Navigating Distance Learning During COVID-19, centers on the systemic and institutional challenges Mexican immigrant mothers endured during the first wave of distance learning during COVID-19. Article three, Reflejando Sobre Las Notas: The Contours of a Chicana/Latina Feminista Mixed Methods Study Through the Employment of Ego-entrenos, proposes six contours when employing ego-entrenos methodology, which aims to advance a critical race feminista mixed methods approach that braids together testimonio (Delgado Bernal et al., 2012), pláticas (Fierros & Delgado Bernal, 2016) and ego-net (Lin, 2002; Mamas et al., 2019). Connecting the three articles together is the reliance on Latina/o Critical Race Theory (LatCrit) (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002) and Chicana feminist epistemology (Delgado Bernal, 1998). To some extent, each article is guided by the overarching research questions, what are the experiences of Latina immigrant mothers navigating the U.S. K-12 education system? What are the systemic barriers being confronted by Latina immigrant mothers when attempting to navigate the U.S. K-12 education system? How do Latina immigrant mothers confront systemic barriers when attempting to navigate the U.S. K-12 education system? The goal of this dissertation is to provide (1) a critique of the historical, political, and social factors that shape the experiences of Latina immigrant mothers, (2) use an asset-based perspective to break down the deficit narrative of the Latinx community, and (3) provide insight into the empirical tools necessary to understand the formation of social networks and exchange of cultural and social capital as a tool to overcome the challenges that Latina immigrant mothers face when attempting to support their children in the education system.
Download or read book Tides of Opportunity written by Sadiri Joy Tira and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope and Hospitality for Migrating People Never have so many people left their homes and migrated to other parts of the world as we’ve seen in recent years. This phenomenon creates as many opportunities as challenges. We are witnessing a massive increase in urbanization, pluralization, multiculturalism, and interfaith dialogue. What are the implications for the church as it tries to reach the nations? Tides of Opportunity brings together experts from diverse backgrounds to consider the practical significance of this mass migration. The reasons for these population movements are as varied as the people. Sadiri Joy Tira explores several causes, like military conflict, economic hardship, and natural disasters. The contributors not only explain such trends but suggest possible ways to engage with diaspora neighbors. Through case studies, this volume also examines lesser-known dynamics, such as sex trafficking and the movement of immigrants to rural areas. This book challenges us to find more creative and integrated mission strategies for effectively reaching out to the various “peoples on the move” with the gospel. How will you respond to the tides of opportunity?
Download or read book Frontera Madre hood written by Cynthia Bejarano and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of mothers and mothering transcends all spaces, from popular culture to intellectual thought and critique. This collection of essays bridges both methodological and theoretical frameworks to explore forms of mothering that challenge hegemonic understandings of parenting and traditional notions of Latinx womxnhood. It articulates the collective experiences of Latinx, Black, and Indigenous mothering from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Thirty contributors discuss their lived experiences, research, or community work challenging multiple layers of oppression, including militarization of the border, border security propaganda, feminicides, drug war and colonial violence, grieving and loss of a child, challenges and forms of resistance by Indigenous mothers, working mothers in maquiladoras, queer mothering, academia and motherhood, and institutional barriers by government systems to access affordable health care and environmental justice. Also central to this collection are questions on how migration and detention restructure forms of mothering. Overall, this collection encapsulates how mothering is shaped by the geopolitics of border zones, which also transcends biological, sociological, or cultural and gendered tropes regarding ideas of motherhood, who can mother, and what mothering personifies. Contributors Elva M. Arredondo Cynthia Bejarano Bertha A. Bermúdez Tapia Margaret Brown Vega Macrina Cárdenas Montaño Claudia Yolanda Casillas Luz Estela (Lucha) Castro Marisa Elena Duarte Taide Elena Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla Paula Flores Bonilla Judith Flores Carmona Sandra Gutiérrez Ma. Eugenia Hernández Sánchez Irene Lara Leticia López Manzano Mariana Martinez Maria Cristina Morales Paola Isabel Nava Gonzales Olga Odgers-Ortiz Priscilla Pérez Silvia Quintanilla Moreno Cirila Quintero Ramírez Felicia Rangel-Samponaro Coda Rayo-Garza Shamma Rayo-Gutierrez Marisol Rodríguez Sosa Brenda Rubio Ariana Saludares Victoria M. Telles Michelle Téllez Marisa S. Torres Edith Treviño Espinosa Mariela Vásquez Tobon Hilda Villegas
Download or read book Mothering Community and Friendship written by Essah Díaz and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mothers, Community, and Friendship is an anthology that explores the complexities of mothering/motherhood, communities, and friendship from across interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives. The chapters in this text not only examine how communities and friendship shape and influence the various spectrums of motherhood, but also analyze how communities and friendship are necessary for mothers. Through personal, reflective, critical essays, and ethnographies, this collection situates the ways mothers are connected to communities and how these relationships forms, such as in mothering groups and maternal friendships. By calling attention to these central and current topics, Mothers, Community, and Friendship represents how communities and friendship become means of empowerment for mothers.
Download or read book Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing written by Andrea Fernández-García and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth study of Latina girls, portrayed in five coming-of-age narratives by using spaces and places as hermeneutical tools. The texts under study here are Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender (2009), Norma E. Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (1995), Mary Helen Ponce’s Hoyt Street: An Autobiography (1993), and Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican (1993) and Almost a Woman (1998). Unlike most representations of Latina girls, which are characterized by cultural inaccuracies, tropes of exoticism, and a tendency to associate the host society with modernity and their girls’ cultures of origin with backwardness and oppression, these texts contribute to reimagining the social differently from what the dominant imagery offers. By illustrating the vexing phenomena the characters have to negotiate on a daily basis (such as racism, sexism, and displacement), these narratives open avenues for a critical exploration of the legacies of colonial modernity. This book, therefore, not only enables an analysis of how the girls’ development is shaped by these structures of power, but also shows how such legacies are reversed as the characters negotiate their identities. It breaks with the longstanding characterization of young people, and especially Latina girls, as voiceless and deprived of agency, showing readers that this youth group also has say in controlling their lifeworlds.
Download or read book Fleshing the Spirit written by Elisa Facio and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleshing the Spirit brings together established and new writers exploring the relationships between the physical body, the spirit and spirituality, and social justice activism. Examining the complex and dynamic connections among these concepts, the writers emphasize the value of “flesh and blood experience” as a site of knowledge. They argue that spirituality—something quite different from institutional religious practice—can heal the mind/body split and set the stage for social change. Spirituality, they argue, is a necessary component of an alternative political agenda focused on equitable social and ecological change. The anthology incorporates different genres of writing—such as poetry, testimonials, critical essays, and historical analysis—and stimulates the reader to engage spirituality in a critical, personal, and creative way. This interdisciplinary work is the first that attempts to theorize the radical interconnection between women of color, spirituality, and social activism. Before transformative political work can be done, the authors say in multiple ways, we must recognize that our spiritual need is a desire to more fully understand our relations with others. Conflict experienced on many levels sometimes severs those relations, separating us from others along racial, class, gender, sexual, national, or other socially constructed lines. Fleshing the Spirit offers a spiritual journey of healing, health, and human revolution. The book’s open invitation to engage in critical dialogue and social activism—with the spirit and spirituality at the forefront—illuminates the way to social change and the ability to live in harmony with life’s universal energies. Contributors Volume Editors Elisa Facio Irene Lara Chapter Authors Angelita Borbón Norma E. Cantú Berenice Dimas C. Alejandra Elenes Alicia Enciso Litschi Oliva M. Espín Maria Figueroa Patrisia Gonzales Inés Hernández- Avila Rosa María Hernández Juárez Cinthya Martinez Lara Medina Felicia Montes Sarahi Nuñez- Mejia Laura E. Pérez Brenda Sendejo Inés Talamantez Michelle Téllez Beatriz Villegas
Download or read book Negotiating Feminisms written by Eilidh AB Hall and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating Feminisms examines intergenerational feminism in Chicanx family life. It analyses literary representations of the ways that Chicanas negotiate feminisms in the family across generations, through the maintenance, contestation, and adaptation of traditional gender roles. Using an original theoretical lens of negotiation to read the works of Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros, this book unpacks intergenerational resistance to patriarchal oppression. This book shows how the works of Cisneros and Castillo articulate a politics of negotiation that critiques the gendered ideologies and roles of the family. In doing so, the book’s discussion not only engages with literary representations but also connects these representations to the contextual experience of Chicanx family life. This book calls for a rethinking of women characters beyond limited, and limiting, familial roles and uses the framework of feminist negotiation as a means to explore the empowering possibilities of intergenerational female relationships.
