¡Chicana Power!

Maylei Blackwell is Assistant Professor in the CÉsar E. ChÁvez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Women's Studies at UCLA. An interdisciplinary scholar activist and oral historian, she works with indigenous women's organizers in Mexico, Latin American feminist movements, and sexual rights activists, all of whom are involved in cross-border organizing and community formation.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Telling Is PoliticalOne. Spinning the Record: Historical Writing and RightingTwo. Chicana Insurgencies: Stories of Transformation, Youth Rebellion, and Campus OrganizingThree. Retrofitted Memory: Chicana Historical Subjectivities between and beyond Nationalist ImaginariesFour. Engendering Print Cultures and Chicana Feminist Counterpublics in the Chicano MovementFive. Interpretive Dilemmas, Multiple Meanings: Convergence and Disjuncture at the 1971 Conferencia de Mujeres por la RazaSix. Chicanas in Movement: Activist and Scholar Legacies in the MakingAppendix. Narrator BiographiesNotesBibliographyIndex

Maylei Blackwell’s book is an in-depth study of women’s involvement in the Chicano Movement (el movimiento) of the late 1960s and 1970s. As Chicanos in the US organized and protested in efforts to address social issues faced by the community, women began to actively engage with the many gender gaps within the movement. This ultimately led to new forms of gender consciousness, awareness and political identities that challenged the confines of Chicano nationalism. Blackwell draws on oral history and archival research to illustrate these struggles, and provides examples of pioneering Chicana activists, theorists, and feminist organizations. (JSTOR Daily)