LIVING THEORY, THEORIZING LIVES, CREATING SOLIDARITY

Latina Feminist Testimonios and Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader, both contribute to the expanding field of Latina feminist scholarship through furthering and supporting a heterogeneous approach that includes theoretical and personal writing. The commonality in both works is counterwriting: each author writes counter to the dominant, academic discourse in an attempt to reflect the heterogeneity of the Latina academic community. The message is supported by a particular, textual format (testimonio or essay/response). In other words, the relationship between form and content gives the reader an insight as to how Latina scholarship is produced.