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The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse by Alma M. Garcia
Historical Origins
Emerged from Chicano Movement (1960s-1970s)
UFW (farmworkers)
Land Grant
Student movement
Raza Unida Party
Family As resistance
Source of support
Changing female roles within the family
4.Comparitive perspective
Parallel movements by Women of color
Black feminism
Asian experience
Shared experience
Sexism within nationalist movements
cross pressures of dual loyalty
accusations of community division
Defining Feminism
Multidimensional Oppression (race, class, gender) : :
Dual identity/struggle
NAtionalist (anti-racist)
Feminist ( anti-sexist)
Inclusion of men
Struggle extends beyond womens rights to community liberation
Core ideological debates
Cultural nationalism
Chicano movement focus on cultural survival
Ideal Chicana myth ( Virgen de Guadalupe)
Debat on Machismo
White feminist movement
Abortion, birth control, equal pay
Elitism & middle class white bias, but failure to address race and class oppresion