An Erotics of Eugenics: Unsettling Villegas de Magnón’s Borderlands Feminism.
This essay analyzes moments of erotic tension in the work of Leonor Villegas de Magnón through eugenic feminist and settler colonialist critiques. Combining close reading and archival research, it conceptualizes her work as a transborder eugenic erotics, arguing that her feminist consciousness devel...
| Published in: | Aztlan: Journal of Chicano Studies Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 43 - 72 |
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Chicano Studies Research Center
Spring2022
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