Anna Nieto-Gómez
| Anna NietoGomez | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1946 San Bernardino County, California, United States |
| Nationality | Mexican American |
Anna Nieto-Gómez was a central part of the early Chicana movement and founded the feminist journal, Encuentro Femenil, in which she and other Chicana writers addressed issues affecting the Latina community, such as childcare, reproductive rights, and the feminization of poverty.
In 1967, Nieto-Gómez began attending California State University at Long Beach and became involved in the Mexican-American students rights movement, founding Hijas de Cuauhtémoc in 1971, a feminist-centered Chicana newspaper. Nieto-Gómez and the women's group, also named Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, "took their name from a Mexican feminist organization that worked against the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship in Mexico,"[1] and also addressed issues ignored by the Chicano population, including those to do with gender and sexuality. Her contemporaries in the group included Adelaida Del Castillo,[2] Sylvia Castillo, Leticia Hernandez, and Corinne Sanchez.[3]
During this time Nieto-Gómez was also involved in el Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán,(MEChA). Though she was elected to president of the student organization, she was hung in effigy by male students who felt a woman should not represent their organization.[1]
Later Nieto-Gómez would serve at California State University, Northridge, in the Department of Chicano Studies, where she would challenge sexism directly through the classes she taught on the Chicano experience.[4] In the Spring of 1973, Hijas de Cuauhtémoc developed into Encuentro Femenil, considered the first Chicana scholarly journal.[5] Encuentro Femenil published poetry and articles based on issues affecting the Chicana community, though publication stopped within two years.[2] Her publication record also included 16 articles, many now classic works on Chicana feminism. Nieto-Gómez was denied tenure at California State University, Northridge in 1976, due to what she considered her political stance. After a lengthy battle to appeal the tenure decision, Nieto-Gómez resigned on September 3, 1976.[6]
References
- 1 2 Ruiz, V. (2006). Latinas in the United States: a historical encyclopedia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 326. ISBN 0-253-34681-9.
- 1 2 "Chicana Feminism - CHICANA FEMINIST WRITINGS, ORGANIZING THE MOVEMENT, DISSENT IN THE CHICANO MOVEMENT, JOINING WITH OTHERS". encyclopedia.jrank.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ↑ "Chicana Feminists". California State University, Long Beach. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ↑ Blea, Irene I. (1997). U.S. Chicanas and Latinas Within a Global Context: Women of Color at the Fourth World Women's Conference. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 144. ISBN 0-275-95624-5.
- ↑ Love, Barbara J. (2006). Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. p. 337. ISBN 978-0-252-03189-2.
- ↑ Blackwell, m. (2011). Chicana Power!: contested histories of feminism in the Chicano movement. Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-292-72690-1.