Latina/Chicana Mothering
edited by Dorsia Smith Silva
NEW PUB DATE: October 2011
258 pages $34.95
978-0-9866671-3-8
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Latina/Chicana Mothering
Table of 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: The Journey across Time, Culture, and Boundaries
Michelle Tellez
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 . . .”: Exploring Resources and Resilience
Among Generations of Puerto Rican Women
Laura Ruth Johnson
Mexican American Women Redefining Good Mothering and Quality Education
Gilda L. Ochoa
III: Scenes of La Familia: Facing Challenges
Latina Teenage Mothering: Meanings, Challenges, and Successes
Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo, Helyne Frederick, and Yvonne Caldera
Motherhood Unbound: Homeless Chicanas in San Francisco
Anne R. Roschelle
Surviving War 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 in Dreaming in Cuban by Cuban American Cristina García
Yolanda Martínez
The Telenovela Alborada: Constructions of Mother in an Internationally Successful Spanish-language Soap Opera
Petra Guerra, Diana I. Rios, and D. Milton Stokes
Malinches, Lloronas, and Guadalupanas: Chicana Revisions of Las Tres Madres
Cristina Herrera
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