Research Catalog

Title

Latina/Chicana mothering / edited by Dorsía Smith Silva.

Publication

Toronto : Demeter Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Silva, Dorsía Smith

Description

xii, 242 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Hispanic American mothers > Social conditions
• Mexican American mothers > Social conditions
• Motherhood > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780986667138
• 0986667137

LCCN

^^2011508463

OCLC

• 755210676
• SCSB-11580866

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library