Gloria Anzaldua

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Gloria Anzaldua (September 26, 1942 - May 15, 2004) was an American scholar, who especially is known for het Chicano cultural theory, feminist theory and Queer theory. Her work, especially the book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, was one of the inspirations for the so-called 'Spatial turn' in social sciences: the shifting in thought on how to examine space and social interactions.

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

The book by Gloria Anzaldua (1987) is a book about the United States-Mexican border and the influence this border has on the social, cultural and psychological state of Mexicans and Americans. The book is composed of poems and essays, each drawing on Gloria Anzaldua's experience as a Chicana (a female United States citizen of Mexican descent), a lesbian and an activist. The main purpose of her book is challenging the conception of a border as just a simple divide (Anzaldua, 1987).

References

• Anzaldua, G. (1987). Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco, California: Spinsters/Aunt Lute Books.

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