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meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers are the recent murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juárez; transborder feminist texts that deal with private, domestic forms of violence; how films like John Sayles's Lone Star re-center white masculinity; and the significance of la familia to the identity of Chicanas/os and how it can subordinate gender and sexuality to masculinity and heterosexual roles. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.

Popular culture --- Group identity --- Mexican American women --- Women in motion pictures. --- Women in popular culture --- Women --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Chicanas --- Women, Mexican American --- Motion pictures --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Ethnic identity. --- Social conditions. --- Public opinion --- Mexican-American Border Region --- American-Mexican Border Region --- Border Region, American-Mexican --- Border Region, Mexican-American --- Borderlands (Mexico and U.S.) --- Mexico-United States Border Region --- Tierras Fronterizas de México-Estados Unidos --- United States-Mexico Border Region --- Ethnic relations. --- Civilization. --- Américaines d'origine mexicaine --- Femmes --- Femmes dans la culture populaire --- Femmes au cinéma --- Identité collective --- Culture populaire --- Conditions sociales --- Identité ethnique --- Région frontalière mexicano-américaine --- Civilisation --- Relations interethniques --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Community organization --- Mexico: North --- USA: South --- Women - Mexican-American Border Region - Social conditions. --- american borderlands. --- chicanas. --- chicano studies. --- ciudad juarez. --- contemporary experience. --- cultural politics. --- cultural practices. --- cultural studies. --- disappearances. --- domestic violence. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- family and identity. --- feminism. --- feminists. --- gender and sexuality. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- latina experience. --- latinx studies. --- mexicana representation. --- mexicanas. --- mexicans. --- murders. --- nonfiction. --- race issues. --- social identity. --- social justice. --- social studies. --- symbolism. --- transborder.