By C. Román-Odio

This booklet examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a strength for social justice and feminist emancipation inside Chicana cultural productions from 1975-2010. In those productions the Virgin serves as a paradigm to release the histories of conquest and colonization, racism, and sexual oppression within the US-Mexico borderland and beyond.

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