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Paula Moya : Interview for Stanford Community Women's March Oral History Project

Paula Moya describes her experiences attending the Women’s March in San Francisco. She discusses her motivations for attending, narrates the day of the march, and reflects on how various aspects of her identity came into play at the march, especially her identity as a woman of Mexican origin and an academic. She also briefly discusses her past activism in electoral politics in Houston, Texas. Moya has been a professor of English at Stanford since 1996.

Paula Moya : Interview for Stanford Community Women's March Oral History Project

Paula Moya describes her experiences attending the Women’s March in San Francisco. She discusses her motivations for attending, narrates the day of the march, and reflects on how various aspects of her identity came into play at the march, especially her identity as a woman of Mexican origin and an academic. She also briefly discusses her past activism in electoral politics in Houston, Texas. Moya has been a professor of English at Stanford since 1996.

Learning from experience : minority identities, multicultural struggles

In Learning from Experience, Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and lived experiences of subordinated people are rich sources of insight about our society, Moya presents a nuanced universalist justification for identity-based work in ethnic studies.In "Learning from Experience", Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and lived experiences of subordinated people are rich sources of insight about our society, Moya presents a nuanced universalist justification for identity-based work in ethnic studies. This strikingly original book provides eloquent analyses of such postmodernist feminists as Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, Norma Alarcon, and Chela Sandoval, and counters the assimilationist proposals of minority neoconservatives such as Shelby Steele and Richard Rodriguez. It advances realist proposals for multicultural education and offers an understanding of the interpretive power of Chicana feminists including Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and Helena Maria Viramontes. Learning from Experience enlarges our concept of identity and offers new ways to situate aspects of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation in discursive and sociopolitical contexts.

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