Quinceañeras
eBook - ePub

Quinceañeras

Latinidades and Girlhood in Popular Culture

  1. 236 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Quinceañeras

Latinidades and Girlhood in Popular Culture

About this book

From dramas to reality TV to advertising, quinceañeras are familiar across mainstream media in the United States. The celebration event for fifteen-year-old girls has evolved over time and today is immersed in gender politics and consumer culture while speaking to Latina/o/x assertions of culture, belonging, tradition, and assimilation.

Jillian M. Báez, Diana Leon-Boys, and Angharad N. Valdivia edit a collection that draws on the expanding field of girlhood studies to examine the increasing visibility of the event and the figure of the quinceañera herself in pop culture. The contributors focus on quinceañeras as a trope for English-language media's treatment of Latina girlhoods and Latinx cultures but also examine how use of the quinceañera charts deepening openness and inclusivity within Latinx culture.

Timely and thought-provoking, Quinceañeras provides an interdisciplinary exploration of a celebration and its central figure within studies of Latina/o/x identity, race, class, gender, and sexuality.

Contributors: Sonya M. Alemán, Jillian M. Báez, Ariana A. Cano, Dolores Inés Casillas, Mari Castañeda, Michael Anthony DeAnda, Kelly Ferguson, Litzy Galarza, Rachel González-Martin, Jillian Hernandez, Karla Larrañaga, Diana Leon-Boys, Stephanie Melissa Pérez, Angharad N. Valdivia, and Claudia Evans-Zepeda

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Information

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
2026
Print ISBN
9780252089343
9780252049699
eBook ISBN
9780252048852
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Popular Culture
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Book Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction Jillian M. Báez, Diana Leon-Boys, and Angharad N. Valdivia
  10. Part I. Representations of Quinceañeras in Film and Television
  11. Part II. Consumption and Exhibitions of Quinceañeras
  12. Part III. Transgressive Quinceañeras
  13. Appendix A: Latina Feminist Media Independent Studies (online), Fall 2020, Professor Valdivia
  14. Appendix B Girlhood Studies Reading List, Independent Study with Diana Leon-Boys, Summer 2016
  15. Appendix C A Brief List of Latina Feminist Quinceañera Scholarship
  16. Appendix D Quinceañera Stories Visual Media Filmography
  17. References
  18. Contributors
  19. Index
  20. Back Cover

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