Mexican figures like La Virgen de Guadalupe, la Malinche, la Llorona, and la Chingada reflect different myths of motherhood in Mexican culture. For the first time, Melero examines these instances of portrayed motherhood as a discursive space in the political, cultural, and literary context of early twentieth century Mexico.

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University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA

Pilar Melero

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Pilar Melero is Associate Professor of Spanish, Chican@ and U.S. Latin@ Literature at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA.

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Book Title: Mythological Constructs of Mexican Femininity
Authors: Pilar Melero
Series Title: Literatures of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137502957
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51461-5Published: 30 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50295-7Published: 30 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2634-601X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6028
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 132
Topics: Gender Studies, Feminism, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Motherhood as a Feminist Discursive Space

Desde las faldas de la madre/From Underneath Mother’s Skirt: Nellie Campobello (Re)Claims (Single) Motherhood and Mothers as Historians

Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza: Writing from the Margins of Word, Class, and Gender

(Re)Thinking Woman(hood): Sara Estela Ramírez, Activity, and Being

Andrea Villarreal González: Forming Rebels/Rebel Forming

Conclusion: Being Woman (Within) Patriarchy

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