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Mexican American Women, Dress and Gender - Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo

Mexican American Women, Dress and Gender

Pachucas, Chicanas, Cholas
Buch | Softcover
120 Seiten
2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-67156-3 (ISBN)
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Mexican American Women, Dress and Gender observes how Pachucas, Chicanas and Cholas have used their body image (dress, hairstyle and body language) as a political tool of deviation and attempts to measure the degree of intentionality in said oppositional stance.
Mexican American women have endured several layers of discrimination deriving from a strong patriarchal tradition and a difficult socioeconomic and cultural situation within the US ethnic and class organization. However, there have been groups of women who have defied their fates at different times and in diverse forms.

Mexican American Women, Dress, and Gender observes how Pachucas, Chicanas, and Cholas have used their body image (dress, hairstyle, and body language) as a political tool of deviation and attempts to measure the degree of intentionality in said oppositional stance. For this purpose and, claiming the sociological power of photographs as a representation of precise sociohistorical moments, this work analyzes several photographs of women of said groups; with the aim of proving the relevance of "other" body images in expressing gender and ethnic identification, or disidentification from the mainstream norm.



Proposing a diachronic, comparative approach to young Mexican American women, this monograph will appeal to students and researchers interested in Chicano History, Race and Ethnic Studies, American History, Feminism, and Gender Studies.

Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo is a lecturer at the University of the Basque Country, Spain.

Table of Contents



Acknowledgements



A Note to the Reader



Table of Contents



Introduction



Chapter 1. Dress, Clothing, Fashion and Style



1.1. The Function of Dress



1.2. Clothing, Fashion and Style



Chapter 2. The 20th Century and Fashion



Chapter 3. Style, Subcultures and Mexican American Women



Chapter 4. Pachucas: Breaking the Norms in the Forties



4.1. Life and Expectations for US Women in the Forties



4.1.1. World War II and Mexican American Women



4.2. Women’s Fashion in the Forties



4.3. The Pachuca: A Rebel Withouth a Cause



4.3.1. Pachucas, Pachucos and the Zoot Suit Riots



4.3.2. The Pachuca Style Politics



Chapter 5. Chicanas: Fighting the Norm in the Seventies



5.1. Life and Expectations for US Women in the Seventies



5.2. Women’s Fashion in the Seventies



5.3. El Movimiento Chicano and La Chicana



5.4. The Chicana Style Politics



5.4.1. The Brown Berets



5.4.2. The Chicana Feminist Activists



Chapter 6. Cholas: Adapting to Other Norms in the Nineties



6.1. Life and Expectations for US Young Women in the Nineties



6.2. Women’s Fashion in the Nineties



6.3. Gangs and Cholo/a Style in 20th century Barrios



6.3.1. The Girls in/around the Gang



6.4. The Chola Style Politics



Concluding Remarks



Works Cited

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 240 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-367-67156-5 / 0367671565
ISBN-13 978-0-367-67156-3 / 9780367671563
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