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Accounting for MeXicana feminisms
Author(s) -
RODRÍGUEZ MÓNICA RUSSEL Y
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00037.x
Subject(s) - subjectivity , wife , context (archaeology) , feminism , ethnography , gender studies , sociology , differential (mechanical device) , history , anthropology , political science , law , epistemology , philosophy , archaeology , engineering , aerospace engineering
In this article, I interrogate the iconic Mexican mother–wife image and practices of feminism of primarily U. S.‐born, Mexicanas–Chicanas (MeXicanas). I anchor disempowering discourses about MeXicana motherhood as subordinate and problematic outside the family, but I look closely within the family context to see how the mother–wife image appears, becomes sustained, and is subverted. I argue for more than the fact of resistance to this image: for a range of practices (“differential movidas”) that, in an ethnographic context, are used to dismantle it. I conclude that, through differential movidas, MeXicanas rework stereotypical ideas despite moments that seem to sustain them. [ Chicana, Mexican American, feminism, stereotypes, subjectivity, differential movidas ]