Leen, Catherine (2021) Shadow Men and Real Women: Shifting the Paradigms of the Chicana/o Family in Cherríe Moraga’s Shadow of a Man and Josefina López’s Real Women Have Curves. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 5 (2). pp. 287-300. ISSN 2474-1604

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Abstract

The works studied here illuminate the repression of Chicana/o women through their focus on family gender divisions. Hailed by Chicano writers as the bedrock of Chicana/o society and a refuge from the racism of US society, the family is re-imagined in these works and in the film based on López’s play. Although these works received very different critical analyses, I argue that they have much in common. I propose that rather than rejecting the family, they offer new role models to Chicanas that allow for fluid sexual identities and the pursuit of goals that do not accord with Mexican tradition.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Adaptation; Chicana/o family; Feminism; Film; Josefina López; Shadow of a Man (1990); Cherríe Moraga; Real Women Have Curves (1990); Theatre;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > Chinese
Item ID:	18651
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2021.1873661
Depositing User:	Catherine Leen
Date Deposited:	13 Jun 2024 08:34
Journal or Publication Title:	Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies
Publisher:	Routledge
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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