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Title:

Women and migration in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands : a reader / edited by Denise A. Segura and Patricia Zavella.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xii, 595 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Women immigrants--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
Mexican American women--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
Mexicans--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
Social change--Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican-American Border Region--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
Vrouwen.
Migratie (demografie)
Mexicanen.
Grensgebieden.
Verenigde Staten.
Mexico.

Other Authors:

Segura, Denise A.
Zavella, Patricia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [521]-583) and index.

Contents:

Toward a planetary civil society / Rosa Linda Fregoso -- A glass half empty: Latina reproduction and public discourse / Leo R. Chavez -- Illegal status and social citizenship: thoughts on Mexican immigrants in a postnational world / Adelaida R. del Castillo -- "Looking like a lesbian": the organization of sexual monitoring at the United States-Mexican border / Eithne Luibheid -- The value of immigrant life / Jonathan Xavier Inda -- Manufacturing sexual subjects: "harassment," desire, and discipline on a maquiladora shopfloor / Leslie Salzinger -- The dialectics of still life: murder, women, and maquiladoras / Melissa W. Wright -- Rape as a weapon of war: militarized rape at the U.S.-Mexico border / Sylvanna M. Falcón -- "Nunca he dejado de tener terror": sexual violence in the lives of Mexican immigrant women / Gloria González-López -- Changing constructions of sexuality and risk: migrant Mexican women farmworkers in California / Xóchitl Castañeda, Patricia Zavella -- Space, gender, and work: home-based workers in Mexico / Faranak Miraftab -- Mexican immigrant women and the new domestic labor / María de la Luz Ibarra -- "¡Aquí estamos y no nos vamos!": justice for janitors in Los Angeles and new citizenship claims / Cynthia Cranford -- Transborder families and gendered trajectories of migration and work / Norma Ojeda de la Peña -- Women, migration, and household survival strategies: Mixtec women in Tijuana / Laura Velasco Ortiz -- Single-parent families: choice or constraint? the formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns / Sylvia Chant -- Working at motherhood: Chicana and Mexican immigrant mothers and employment / Denise A. Segura -- "I'm here, but I'm there": the meanings of Latina transnational motherhood / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Ernestine Avila -- Reproduction of gender relations in the Mexican migrant community of New Rochelle, New York / Victoria Malkin -- "En el norte la mujer manda": gender, generation, and geography in a Mexican transnational community / Jennifer S. Hirsch -- Unruly passions: poetics, performance, and gender in the Ranchera song / Olga Nájera-Ramírez -- Becoming Selena, becoming Latina / Deborah Paredez -- Cyberbrides and global imaginaries: Mexican women's turn from the national to the foreign / Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel.

Series:

Latin America otherwise

ISBN:

0822341182 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822341185 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822340976 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822340973 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006036829

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)