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Latina/Chicana mothering
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- Creator
- edited by Dorsía Smith Silva
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Toronto : Demeter Press, c2011
- Physical Details
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- xii, 242 p. ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780986667138, 0986667137
- OCLC
- ocn755210676
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction : Conceptualizing Latina/Chicana mothering / Dorsía Smith Silva -- I: Telling our tales : Testimonios. Are hunters born or made? / Ana Castillo ; My mother's memory / Mayra Santos-Febres ; How (in a time of trouble) I discovered my Mom and learned to live / Junot Díaz ; Journey to motherhood / Dorsía Smith Silva ; Learning the hard way / Angie Cruz ; Mi Madre, Mi Hija y Yo : Chicana mothering through memory, culture and place / Michelle Téllez -- II: Counting the ways to mother: communities and resources. Life, death, and second mothering : Mexican American mothers, gang violence, and La Virgen de Guadalupe / Richard Mora ; "No hay nada tan mala... (There is nothing so bad)" : Latina mothering across generations / Laura Ruth Johnson ; Transformational caring : Mexican American women redefining mothering and education / Gilda L. Ochoa -- III: Scenes of la familia : facing challenges. Latina teenage mothering : meanings, challenges, and successes / Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo and Helyne Frederick ; Motherhood unbound : homeless Chicanas in San Francisco / Anne R. Roschelle ; Surviving warfare and trauma : consequences for Salvadorian mother-daughter relationships / Mirna E. Carranza -- IV: The ties that bind: literary and cultural representations of Latina/Chicana mothers. Counternarratives in the literary works of Mexican author Ángeles Mastretta and Chilean author Pía Barros / Mary Lou Babineau ; Contesting the meaning of Latina/Chicana motherhood : familism, collectivist orientation, and nonexclusived mothering in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban / Yolanda Martínez ; The telenovela Alborada : constructions of the Latina mother in an internationally successful soap opera / Petra Guerra, Diana I. Rios, and D. Milton Stokes ; Malinches, Lloronas, and Guadalupanas : Chicana revisions of Las Tres Madres / Cristina Herrera