Para la Mujer: Defining a Chicana Feminist Rhetoric at the Turn of the Century1

College English Sep 2004

Para la Mujer: Defining a Chicana Feminist Rhetoric at the Turn of the Century1

Jessica Enoch

Abstract

Focusing on the rhetorical work of definition in the writings of Maria Rentería, Sara Estela Ramírez, and Astrea, contributors in the early years of the twentieth century to the Spanish-language newspaper La Crónica, this essay argues that these writers redefined who the Mexican woman was and what her role in the borderlands of Texas and Mexico could be. Its exploration of their definitional claims historicizes Chicana feminist rhetoric, and examines how their work infuses rhetorics of/from color with concerns of gender and class.

Journal: College English
Published: 2004-09-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce20044057
Open Access: Closed
Topics: gender and writing

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