Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-mkpzs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T17:29:37.910Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Maquiladora Mestizos and a Feminist Border Politics: Revisiting Anzaldúa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Melissa Wright
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

This essay argues that a new, politicized mestiza is emerging within the cultural borderlands of the Mexico-U.S. divide. She works in the upper ranks of the multinational maquiladoras and raises many challenges for a feminist theorization of a new border politics. Through a presentation of research in one maquiladora, the essay demonstrates how understanding the dynamic between metaphorical and material space is vital for imagining a feminist politics in the cultural borderlands.

Type
Research Article
Information
Hypatia , Volume 13 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multiculturalism and Postcolonial Challenges, Part 2 , Summer 1998 , pp. 114 - 131
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 by Hypatia, Inc.

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Anaya, Rodolfo and Lomelí, Francisco, eds. 1989. Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Home land. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.Google Scholar
Anzaldúa, Gloria. 1987. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute Press.Google Scholar
Gloria, Anzaldúa and Hernández., E. 199596. Re‐Thinking Margins and Borders: An Interview. Discourse, 18 (1‐2): 7–15.Google Scholar
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1984. Distinctions: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. New York :.Google Scholar
Routledge Butler, Judith. 1993. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive limits of “Sex”. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Routledge Butler, Judith. 1997. The Psychic Life of Power: Theories on Subjection. Stanford: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
Cordoba, Tabuenca and Maria, Socorro. 199596. Viewing the Border: Perspectives from the ‘Open Wound.’ Discourse, 18(1‐2): 146–195.Google Scholar
Dunn, Tim. 1996. The Militarization of the U.S.‐Mexico Border. Austin: The University of Texas Press.Google Scholar
Fernandez‐Kelly, María P. 1983. For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier. New York: State University of New York Press.Google Scholar
Fox, Claire F. 199596. The Fence and the River: Representations of the US‐Mexico Border in Art and Video. Discourse, 18(1‐2): 54–83.Google Scholar
Frobel, Frobel. 1979. The New International Division of Labor. New York: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Garber, Marjorie. 1992. Vested Interests: Cross‐Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Geertz, Clifford. 1988. Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Stanford: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
Harvey, David. 1996. Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.Google Scholar
Katz, Cindi and Neil, Smith. 1993. Grounding Metaphor: Towards a Spatialized Politics. In Place and the Politics of Identity, ed. Keith, M. and Pile, S.London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Suzan, Kern and Tim, Dunn. 1995. Mexico's Economic Crisis Spawns Wildcat Strike in a Maquiladora Plant. Labor Notes 194: 16.Google Scholar
Martin, Emily. 1994. Plexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in Amerian Culture from the Day of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Boston: Beacon Press.Google Scholar
Mohanty, Chandra T. 1991. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses. In Third World Women and the politics of feminism, ed. Mohanty, Chandra T., Russo, Ann, and Torres, Lourdes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Google Scholar
Ong, E. E. 1987. Spirits of resistance and xxx discipline: Factory women in Malaysia. Albany: State University of New York Press.Google Scholar
Salzinger, Leslie. 1997. From High Heels to Swathed Bodies: Gendered Meanings Under Production in Mexico Export‐Processing Industry. Feminist Review 23(3): 549–574.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schoenberger, Erica. 1997. The Cultural Crisis of the Firm. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.Google Scholar
Strathern, Marilyn. 1991. Partial Connections. Savage: Rowman & Littlefield.Google Scholar
Wright, Melissa W. 1997. Crossing the Factory Frontier: Gender, Place and Power in a Mexican Maquiladora. Antipode 29(3): 278–296.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wright, Melissa W. 1996. Third World Women and the Geography of Skill. Ph.D. diss. The Johns Hopkins University.Google Scholar
Young, Iris. 1990. Justice and the Politics of Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar