(Out)classed women: contemporary Chicana writers on inequitable gendered power relations

Abstract

Preface Introduction Chicana Writers' Major Concerns and Themes Outclassing Chicanas through Catholicism and Religious Mythologies Outclassing Chicanas through Gatekeeping and Familism Outclassing Chicanas through the Use of Discriminatory Gender Success Models Outclassing Chicanas by Silencing Them and by Violence Chicana Solutions to Outclassing Women Re-Shaping Catholicism and Other Religious and Cultural Mythologies into a Female-Centered Cosmology Transforming Inequitable Gender Success Models Bibliography Index