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Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica: From East L.A. to Anahuac

Paloma Martinez-Cruz Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2012. Reviewed by E.A. Polanco Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica: From East L.A. to Anahuac maps an ethnohistorical journey through Mesoamerican time and space in order to understand why Latinas in …

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Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources

 Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010 Reviewed by Traci Yoder Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources examines the role of archival materials in the creation of feminist histories. In this …

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Ambiguous Images: Gender and Rock Art

Kelly A. Hays-Gilpin Altamira Press, 2004 Reviewed by Lea McChesney The title of Kelley Hays-Gilpin’s ambitious volume is intentionally provocative. Ambiguous Images challenges us to address ambiguities in particular forms of visual imagery (“rock art”) as gender representations by rethinking …

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