The woman in the zoot suit : gender, nationalism, and the cultural politics of memory /

Recovers the neglected history of young Mexican American women zoot-suiters in wartime Los Angeles and explains their absence from Chicano movement narratives.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ramírez, Catherine Sue, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Series:E-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Mexican American women > California > Los Angeles > Ethnic identity.
Mexican American women > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Mexican American women > History > 20th century.
Mexican American women > Social conditions.
Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943.
Américaines d'origine mexicaine > Identité ethnique > Californie > Los Angeles.
Américaines d'origine mexicaine > Californie > Los Angeles > Conditions sociales.
Américaines d'origine mexicaine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Américaines d'origine mexicaine > Conditions sociales.
Émeutes des Zoot Suit, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Mexican American women
Mexican American women > Ethnic identity
Mexican American women > Social conditions
Chicana
California > Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif.
Los Angeles <Calif.>
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a genealogy of vendidas
  • Domesticating the pachuca
  • Black skirts, dark slacks, and brown knees : pachuca style and spectacle
  • During World War II-- Saying "nothin'" : pachucas and the languages of resistance
  • La pachuca and the excesses of family and nation
  • Epilogue : homegirls then and now, from the home front to the frontline.

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