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"Mexican American women reached across generations to develop a bridging activism that drew on different methods and ideologies to pursue their goals. Marisela R. Chávez uses a wealth of untapped oral histories to reveal the diverse ways activist Mexican American women in Los Angeles claimed their own voices and space while seeking to leverage power. Chávez tells the stories of the people who honed beliefs and practices before the advent of the Chicano movement and the participants in the movement after its launch in the late 1960s. As she shows, Chicanas across generations challenged societal traditions that at first assumed their place on the sidelines and then assigned them second-class status within political structures built on their work. Fueled by a surging pride in their Mexican heritage and indigenous roots, these activists created spaces for themselves that acknowledged their lives as Mexicans and women. Vivid and compelling, Chicana Liberation reveals the remarkable range of political beliefs and life experiences behind a new activism and feminism shaped by Mexican American women"--

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Movements, Movimientos, and Movidas -- Part I. Hallway Movidas -- 1. Francisca Flores, the League of Mexican American Women, and the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional, 1958–1975 -- 2. Mujeres Bravas: How Chicanas Shaped the Feminist Agenda at the National IWY Conference in Houston, 1977 -- 3. "Women Need to Find Their Voice": Latinas Speak Out in the Midwest, 1972 -- 4. "It's Not a Natural Order": Religion and the Emergence of Chicana Feminism in the Cursillo Movement in San Jose -- 5. Many Roads, One Path: A Testimonio of Gloria E. Anzaldúa -- Part II. Home-Making Movidas -- 6. La Causa de los Pobres: Alicia Escalante's Lived Experiences of Poverty and the Struggle for Economic Justice -- 7. Women Who Make Their Own Worlds: The Life and Work of Ester Hernández -- 8. Feminista Frequencies: Chicana Radio Activism in the Pacific Northwest -- 9. Excavating the Chicano Movement: Chicana Feminism, Mobilization, and Leadership at El Centro de la Raza, 1972–1979 -- 10. The Space in Between: Exploring the Development of Chicana Feminist Thought in Central Texas -- 11. Visions of Utopia while Living in Occupied Aztlán -- Part III. Movidas of Crossing -- 12. Forging a Brown-Black Movement: Chicana and African American Women Organizing for Welfare Rights in Los Angeles -- 13. "Tu Reata Es Mi Espada": Elizabeth Sutherland's Chicana Formation -- 14. "La Raza en Canada": San Diego Chicana Activists, the Indochinese Women's Conference of 1971, and Third World Womanism -- 15. María Jiménez: Reflexiones on Traversing Multiple Fronteras in the South -- 16. De Campesina a Internacionalista: A Journey of Encuentros y Desencuentros -- Part IV. Memory Movidas -- 17. Unpacking Our Mothers' Libraries: Practices of Chicana Memory before and after the Digital Turn -- 18. Refocusing Chicana International Feminism: Photographs, Postmemory, and Political Trauma -- 19. La Mariposa de Oro: The Journey of an Advocate -- 20. My Deliberate Pursuit of Freedom -- 21. Manifesto de Memoria: (Re)Living the Movement without Blinking -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index