Unit 3: Printing a Women's Literature

Week 10:
Mon, Nov 7: blog entry due (what is print culture? how does it change how we read?); Maylei Blackwell "Contested Histories: Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Chicana Feminisms, and Print Culture in the Chicano Movement, 1968-1973" (2003) (59-89); first issue of Hijas de Cuauhtémoc (handout)

Wed, Nov 9: Continue with Maylei Blackwell and Hijas de Cuauhtémoc

Fri, Nov 11: Carol Seajay oral history (2003, handout); and read the layout, images, and text from all pages of our excerpts from Feminist Bookstores Newsletter 3.5 (Oct, 1979, handout) and from Feminist Bookstore News 16.3 (Oct, 1993, handout)

Week 11:
Mon, Nov 14: Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga, editors, This Bridge Called My Back (1981/1983/2002) (front matter (all the unnumbered pages), Publishers Note (among unnumbered), selected pages from Moraga 2001 (xv-xvii, xxviii-xxxiii), all of Anzaldúa 2001 (xxxiv-xxxix), Bambara 1981 (xl-xliii), Moraga 1981 (xliv-li), Anzaldúa & Moraga 1981 (lii-lvi), Rushin poem (lvii)); as you're reading, diagram the material life of This Bridge Called My Back