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Yreina D. Cervántez
born Garden City, Kansas 1952
Mujer de Mucha Enagua, PA' TI XICANA
1999
screenprint on paper
"Mujer de mucha enagua" is a Mexican Zapatista phrase for a powerful woman activist, meaning a "woman with a lot of petticoat." Cervántez's print pays tribute to bold female leaders of different eras. Through text and image, she honors the seventeenth-century Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, twentieth-century Mexican author Rosario Castellanos, and the Zapatista Comandanta (female commander) Ramona. Cervántez dedicates her print to women, using the indigenous feminist spelling of "Xicana" in the title.
Museum purchase through the Samuel and Blanche Koffler Acquisition Fund, 2020.40.1 |