Books by "Alicia de Lara"

2 books found

[Un]framing the "Bad Woman"

[Un]framing the "Bad Woman"

by Alicia Gaspar de Alba

2014 · University of Texas Press

One of America's leading interpreters of the Chicana experience dismantles the discourses that "frame" women who rebel against patriarchal strictures as "bad women" and offers empowering models of struggle, resistance, and rebirth.

Sor Juana's Second Dream

Sor Juana's Second Dream

by Alicia Gaspar de Alba

1999 · UNM Press

This historically accurate and beautifully written novel explores the secret inclinations, subjective desires, and political struggles of the 17th-century Mexican nun and poet.