Communal Feminisms

Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs is professor of modern languages and literatures and women's studies at Seattle University.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 PrologueChapter 3 Introduction: Chinampas/Floating GardensPart 4 InterviewsChapter 5 Pia BarrosChapter 6 Norma E. CantuChapter 7 Susana Sanchez BravoChapter 8 Semetria MartinezChapter 9 Alicia PartnoyChapter 10 Kathleen AlcalaChapter 11 Alejandra BasualtoChapter 12 Helena Maria ViramontesChapter 13 Lucha CorpiChapter 14 Andrea JeftanovicChapter 15 Sonya RosarioChapter 16 Lorna Dees CervantesPart 17 Creative PiecesChapter 18 DivaChapter 19 Se Me Hizo FacilChapter 20 II.Chapter 21 BronchitisChapter 22 Conversation with Veronica De NegriChapter 23 SurbiaChapter 24 IdentidadDesgarrosChapter 25 Seven Bones of the Foot ArchChapter 26 Hollow Point at SynapsesChapter 27 Tengo La Misma Edad De PapaMis Palabras Son Un Grito En La HojaChapter 28 Coke Bottle Taps (Para Mi Francis)FrancisThe DreamerPart 29 Appendix I: Original Spanish InterviewsChapter 30 Pia BarrosChapter 31 Susana Sanchez BravoChapter 32 Alejandra BasualtoChapter 33 Andrea Jeftanovic

Dr. Gutierrez y Muhs' book is an amazing representation of what it means for women of Hispanic descent to experience a gendered version of what W.E.B. DuBois referred to as double-consciousness . . . [that] sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. It might be posited that Dr. Gutierrez renders narratives more befitting the label 'triple-consciousness' in relation to her contributing authors. The true gift of this book is that readers are able to live experientially what Dr. Gutierrez calls 'extentity' by placing themselves within the narratives of the contributing authors. This is an amazing must-read book that has important cultural import at the helm of the twenty-first century.