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Femmenism and the Mexican Woman Intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska

Part of the Breaking Feminist Waves Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230113497

ISBN: 978-1-349-28900-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 12, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Hind, Emily

Pages: 1 –25

[Welcome to Boob lit! The following chapters have some interesting information for you: Chapter 1 examines the three archetypes that influence Mexican women; Chapter 2 shows that Rosario Castellanos champions asexuality and refuses the lesbian subject that attracts her; Chapter 3 looks at...
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Chapter 2Your Maternity or Your Mind: False Choices for Mexican Woman Intellectuals

Hind, Emily

Pages: 27 –50

[Performing intellectuality and being a maternal caretaker represent incompatible roles for women in much of the western imaginary. The dominant images of womanhood in Mexico uphold this incompatibility, and Mexican women writers seem susceptible to the false choice, “Your maternity or your...
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Chapter 3Asexuality and the Woman Writer: Queering a Compliant Castellanos

Hind, Emily

Pages: 51 –84

[The previous pages have defended the raison d’être for gender studies, albeit in a pessimistic manner, by way of exploring the Sor Juana archetype. A second way to defend the need for gender studies is to look at the historical process of becoming visible as an intellectual in twentieth-century...
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Chapter 4Amor, Garro, and Rivas Mercado as Diva-lectuals

Hind, Emily

Pages: 85 –145

[Busted criticism and its revaluation of breasts as potentially brainy beg the question of where women find the valor to publish Boob lit. In men-authored virile literature, bravery exists in a tautology of sorts: good literature is produced from male genitals, and thus virile literature is...
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Chapter 5Poniatowska as Bearded Lady

Hind, Emily

Pages: 147 –183

[In Chapter 3, I mentioned that Poniatowska’s stated reaction to police surveillance involved nonchalance, in contrast with Elena Garro’s high-strung flight into exile. This relative tranquility does not mean that Poniatowska rejected entirely Garro’s pleasure in the feminine. Poniatowska is...
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Chapter 6On Barbie, the Boob, and Loaeza

Hind, Emily

Pages: 185 –225

[The present chapter adds the controversial symbol of the Barbie doll to the previous chapter’s reference to comic books in order to think about the popular writer Guadalupe Loaeza. Adult Mexicans’ interest in Barbie as more than a toy materialized before my eyes in spring 2009 at a special...

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