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Coyolxauhqui: Challenging Patriarchy by Re-imagining her birth story

2016; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5070/d4121028567

1548-3320

Christine Vega,

Latin American and Latino Studies

By employing a Chicana Feminist Epistemology (CFE) and Gloria Anzaldúas Coyolxauhqui analysis in theory, I offer a narrative and examination of the ways to challenge patriarchy through birth stories. More importantly, discuss the ways we build on scholarship offered by Chicanas and Indigena identified women who may or may not be mothers of children, but rather as producers of knowledge; academic, spiritual, or self-fulfilling. In addition, I discuss the ways in which women can piece together the fragmented story of Coyolxauhqui, via the multiplicity of complicated, but critical identities, by sharing their stories.