‘Muy Macha’: Gender and ideology in gang‐girls’ discourse about makeup

Norma C Mendoza-Denton

doi:10.1080/00141844.1996.9981527

‘Muy Macha’: Gender and ideology in gang‐girls’ discourse about makeup

Norma C Mendoza-Denton

Anthropology, School of

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This article explores how notions of power, femininity, and ethnicity permeate the discourses of and around girls involved in gangs. I explore how the cholas ‐ Latina gang girls ‐ of Foxbury perform and inscribe on their bodies a specific kind of femininity that not only confounds wider community notions of how girls should act, dress, and talk, but throws into question the very gendered category that girls are expected to inhabit.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	47-63
Number of pages	17
Journal	Ethnos
Volume	61
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.1996.9981527
State	Published - 1996

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