With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians

by Catriona Rueda Esquibel

Book Overview

With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherr e Moraga and Gloria Anzald a ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Chicana/o experience have been slow to perceive the existence of a whole community--lesbian and straight, male as well as female--who write about the Chicana lesbian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292712758
• ISBN13: 9780292712751
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"