Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I
Reading Tejana, Reading Chicana

2
Chicana Feminisms: From Ethnic Identity to
Global Solidarity

3
Mestiza Consciousness and Politics: Gloria Anzaldua's
Borderlands I La Frontera

4
Mujeres en Lucha I Mujeres de Fuerza: Women in
Struggle I Women of Strength in Sandra Cisneros's
Border Narratives

5
"I Hear the Women's Wails and I Know Them to
Be My Own": From Mujer to Collective Identities
in Helena Maria Viramontes's U.S. Third World

Epilogue: "Refugees of a World on Fire":
Geopolitical Feminisms
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX

About the Author

Sonia Saldivar-Hull is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.