Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity

Jacqueline M. Martinez is assistant professor of communication at Arizona State University at Tempe.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 The Generative Nexus: A Chicana Feminist CrossingChapter 3 Speaking as a Chicana: Tracing Cultural Heritage through Silence and BetrayalChapter 4 Radical Ambiguities and the Chicana Lesbian: Body Topographies on Contested LandsChapter 5 La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Intra- and Intersubjective Transformations of Racist and Homophobic CultureChapter 6 Chicana Feminism and Struggle in the Flesh: Racist Assimilation and Cultural RecoveryChapter 7 Chicana y Chicana: A Dialogue on Race, Class, and Chicana IdentityChapter 8 Bibliography

Jacqueline Martinez's book deepens our understanding of how transformation and liberation are (and, can be) achieved at the level of individual consciousness. An important contribution to the field of communication—a privileging of Chicana feminist scholarship and what it has to offer to communication scholars' theoretical and methodological endeavors.