
@article{ref1,
title="Accounting for MeXicana feminisms",
journal="American ethnologist",
year="2008",
author="RodrÍguez, MÃ“nica russel Y.",
volume="35",
number="2",
pages="308-320",
abstract="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]<p />",
language="",
issn="0094-0496",
doi="10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00037.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00037.x"
}