{"product_id":"the-woman-in-the-zoot-suit-9780822342861","title":"The Woman in the Zoot Suit","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecovers the neglected history of young Mexican American women zoot-suiters in wartime Los Angeles and explains their absence from Chicano movement narratives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ramírez’s book restores pachucas to history and also provides astute analysis of the role of cultural production in emerging political formations. It is an excellent accomplishment and a superb model of truly interdisciplinary history.” - Nan Enstad, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] serious must-read for United States cultural historians—one of my favorites from last year.” - \u003ci\u003eTenured Radical\u003c\/i\u003e blog\u003cbr\u003e“This unique, important book comes out swinging and packs a punch. In pithy prose Ramírez reassesses pachucas—everyday, working-class female zoot suiters, and la pachuca—iconographic, symbolic figure. . . . With an ear for language and an eye for fashion, the author validates the legacy of once vilified women who shook up the status quo with panache, impudence, insolence, insouciance, and insubordination.” - Anthony Macías, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In her engaging and insightful book, Catherine Ramírez provides the first comprehensive, full-length study of the Mexican American woman zoot suiter or \u003ci\u003epachuca\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . Overall, Ramírez provides a masterful reading of cultural texts and their representations of pachucas. . . . Provocative and important, Ramírez adds a highly notable contribution to race, gender, and ethnic studies scholarship.” - Elizabeth R. Escobedo, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ramírez presents the unique history of the Mexican American Pachuca, whose situation takes into account the religious, gender, and non-U.S.-born ramifications that they inherited. Not only did they have to fight against the politics of a racist, sexist society alongside the Pachucos, but they also had to fight the misogynistic politics of their brethren from within. Ramírez presents a well documented and informative work on the Pachuca, thus helping to bring us out of our culturally-induced slumber. “ - Olupero R. Aiyenimelo, \u003ci\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/i\u003e blog\u003cbr\u003e“It's a compelling look at the politics of style and the resistance enacted when young women of color refused to be invisible to mainstream culture.” - \u003cb\u003eErica Lies\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBitch Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this engaging and perceptive book, Catherine S. Ramírez locates Mexican American women zoot suiters (pachucas) in wartime zoot-suit culture and the cultural politics of Chicano nationalism. This original study provides a new cultural lens for envisioning the network of social relationships, identifications, and symbolic investments gathered around the historical figure of the pachuca.”—\u003cb\u003eRosa-Linda Fregoso\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMeXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Powerful and innovative, \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in the Zoot Suit\u003c\/i\u003e will serve as a foundational text for future studies on culture, race, gender, and sexuality. Catherine S. Ramírez expertly reveals the complexities of pachuca identity, the extent of Mexican American women zoot suiters’ representation in and engagement with popular culture and mainstream media, and, ultimately, the ways that these young women disrupted dominant notions of U.S., Mexican American, and Chicana\/o identity, nationalism, and family.”—\u003cb\u003eLuis Alvarez\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] complicated and important text. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Woman In the Zoot Suit \u003c\/i\u003eadds to Duke University's excellent collection of studies on clothing, identity, racism, sexuality, and women's history. As Catherine Ramirez reminds us, history is intervention. History has the power to marginalize communities - or to define them in new ways. “ -- Barbara Kantz * Canadian Journal of History *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Woman in the Zoot Suit\u003c\/i\u003e is rife with teaching moments. Ramírez kicks off the book with challenging questions about evidence and the very notion of history. She inspires a rethinking of lost stories, and how we recover them. And she leaves her audience reconsidering of the role of memory in the evolution of history, of identity, and of our own self-perceptions as readers of, and actors in, history.” -- Linda L. Ivey * The History Teacher *\u003cbr\u003e“By carefully studying the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation, Ramírez is able to critically consider the implications of the relationship between family and the nation, as these are maintained and challenged through dominant reproductions and nondominant resistances. . . . Ramírez’s text is . . . broadly accessible and suitable for graduates and undergraduates.” -- Adela C. Licona * Feminist Formations *\u003cbr\u003e“Ramírez brings together a wide range of sources and methodological approaches to recover the images, voices, and silences of the much maligned and misunderstood pachucas. More importantly, she illuminates the larger meaning and significance of the pachucas’ dress, language, and self-censorship. In so doing, she provides a model of what it means to work in multiple disciplines to create a narrative that does justice to her subjects. The book contains never-before published photos and is written in an easy-to-read style with minimal jargon. For these reasons, \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in the Zoot Suit\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to a wide audience, including scholars, feminists, students of the Chicano and Chicana movement, and the general public. “ -- Miroslava Chavez-Garcia * Women's Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“This engrossing, unexpectedly timely study of the politics of cultural nationalism resurrects the hidden history of \u003ci\u003ela pachuca\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . A vital addition for those interested in American ethnic and cultural studies as well as studies of sexuality and visual culture, this book speaks forcefully to current Obama-era and post–Prop 8 debates over race, ethnicity, sexuality, patriotism and citizenship.” * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e“In her engaging and insightful book, Catherine Ramírez provides the first comprehensive, full-length study of the Mexican American woman zoot suiter or \u003ci\u003epachuca\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . Overall, Ramírez provides a masterful reading of cultural texts and their representations of pachucas. . . . Provocative and important, Ramírez adds a highly notable contribution to race, gender, and ethnic studies scholarship.” -- Elizabeth R. Escobedo * Western Historical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e“It's a compelling look at the politics of style and the resistance enacted when young women of color refused to be invisible to mainstream culture.” -- Erica Lies * Bitch *\u003cbr\u003e“Ramírez’s book restores pachucas to history and also provides astute analysis of the role of cultural production in emerging political formations. It is an excellent accomplishment and a superb model of truly interdisciplinary history.” -- Nan Enstad * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e“This unique, important book comes out swinging and packs a punch. In pithy prose Ramírez reassesses pachucas—everyday, working-class female zoot suiters, and la pachuca—iconographic, symbolic figure. . . . With an ear for language and an eye for fashion, the author validates the legacy of once vilified women who shook up the status quo with panache, impudence, insolence, insouciance, and insubordination.” -- Anthony Macías * American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xxi\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Terminology xxv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A Genealogy of \u003ci\u003eVendidas\u003c\/i\u003e 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Domesticating the Pachuca 25\u003cbr\u003e 2. Black Skirts, Dark Slacks, and Brown Knees: Pachuca Style and Spectacle during World War II 55\u003cbr\u003e 3. Saying \"Nothin'\": Pachucas and the Languages of Resistance 83\u003cbr\u003e 4. \u003ci\u003eLa Pachuca\u003c\/i\u003e and the Excesses of Family and Nation 109\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Homegirls Then and Now, from the Home Front to the Frontline 137\u003cbr\u003e Notes 149\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 197\u003cbr\u003e Index 225","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406052598103,"sku":"9780822342861","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822342861.jpg?v=1730494370","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-woman-in-the-zoot-suit-9780822342861","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}