Chicana and Mexicana Transnational Feminist Encounter: "fem." and the Virgen de Guadalupe Cover Controversy of 1984

Our panel addresses how Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies are almost always in constant epistemic conflict precisely because the boundaries of traditional disciplines cannot explain through traditional methods/archives the lives... [ view full abstract ]

Our panel addresses how Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies are almost always in constant epistemic conflict precisely because the boundaries of traditional disciplines cannot explain through traditional methods/archives the lives of Chicana/os and Latina/os. The panelists use “film”, the “classroom”, and a “magazine” as sites of meaning that uncover Chicana/Latina epistemologies. While this presents real problems for academics, researchers, and independent scholars in institutional settings, this research generates methodologies to uncover the narratives of Chicana/Latina lived experiences and provides space for “social change”.

Sonia Mariscal’s “Chicana and Mexicana Transnational Feminist Encounter: fem. and the Virgen de Guadalupe Cover Controversy of 1984” presentation focuses on Mexican transnational feminism in Mexico during the 1970s through the 1980s using as an archive one of the longest running feminist magazines in Latin America titled fem. fem. was published from 1976 to 2004 and came to have an important presence and influence all over Latin America.Chicana’s and fem.’s acts of uncivility came with the printing of the Virgen de Guadalupe in fem.’s 1984 cover which resulted in the re-imagination of traditional narratives of Mexican womanhood.

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