Nonprofit Publishing Since 1982
Marisa Belausteguigoita
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Marisa Belausteguigoita is a professor at the School of Pedagogy in the Humanities at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and chair of the Gender Studies Center at UNAM (CIEG/UNAM). Her work focuses on the relationship between critical pedagogies, artistic and juridical practices focused on women’s access to justice, and she has been active in translating, teaching, and researching the work of Chicanas and Chicana discourse and theory in México.
BOOKS
Chicana Feminist Essays (1981-2024)
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Edited by Norma E. Cantú, Dionne Espinoza, and Marisa Belausteguigoitia
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Forced by Circumstance gathers in one volume foundational essays by, and interviews with one of the most highly esteemed intellectuals in Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Feminist Studies. Reading Alarcón’s essays—from her early work on Mexican feminist writer Rosario Castellanos to her recent reflections on the carceral state and the political debacle that our contemporary situation presents—not only offers readers a sense of the intellectual trajectory of one of our most important Chicana feminist thinkers but also brings to a new generation of scholars and readers classic essays in Chicana/o Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, and Literary Studies.