Massacre of the Dreamers
Ana Castillo's Massacre of the Dreamers is phenomenal. Highly recommend it for anyone interested in Chicana/Xicana feminism.
I really appreciate that she digs much deeper than European-introduced patriarchal religion as the source of sexism and machismo; she goes back thousands of years to pre-Conquest society.
It's a little depressing to know just how long women have been subjugated, especially since there's this myth of tons of matriarchal societies in the pre-Columbian era, but I think it's important to understand.
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