Una Guerra Contra La Mujer: Chicana Feminism and Vietnam War Protest
The 1960’s in the United States is known for its many social movements, especially for women and ethnic minorities. One movement of this period that deserves more study is Chicana women who were active in Vietnam antiwar efforts. Women’s Studies minor Arica Roberts will present research from a wide variety of sources, including The Gloria Arellanes Papers, a collection of sources from California State University’s Special Collections which includes the letter of resignation from all the women of the Brown Berets. It also includes notes from the Chicano Moratorium Committee which outlined the ideas of what can be done to end the draft for the Vietnam War, as well as a collection of poems, articles, essays, and photographs from the newspaper for Las Adelitas de Aztlán called Las Hijas de Cuahtemoc, which call for sisterhood, focus on the specific goals for the Chicana, and condemn the Vietnam war which not only had a high casualty rate of Chicanos, was a distraction from domestic issues affecting Chicano/as, and the beginning of Chicana Feminism as a movement within a movement with the dual goal to further La Raza and extinguish patriarchy.