Book
La Chicana: the Mexican-American woman
University of Chicago Press • Chicago • Published In 1979 • Pages:
By: Mirandé, Alfredo, Enríquez, Evangelina.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The authors of this book intended to fill 'a real need for a definitive, comprehensive study of the Chicana;' i.e., of the Mexican-American woman. This thorough account includes sections on the Chicana in family life, the workplace, schools, literature, and social movements (labor and feminist). The cultural heritage of the contemporary Chicana derived from Mexico and the American Southwest generally is also discussed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Labor supply and employment
- Literature
- Literary texts
- Collective bargaining
- Political movements
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Writer
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus ; 1986
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1840s - 1970s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alfredo Mirandé, Evangelina Enríquez
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-271) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79013536
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans