While attending U.C. Riverside I began to define and to make
sense of what I had experienced and felt as a Chicana. Martha P.
Cotera’s book “Diosa y Hembra” shares much about the history of
Chicanas. Her summary for chapter 2 reads: By understnd the
past, Chicana historians hope that contemporary women will be
beter equipped to cope with the present and to determine their
futuer. Reading her book shed new light on the women’s stories
that my mother and my female relatives had shared with me. Who
they were, how they identified their roles, the limitations set
by themselves and by others. This was powerful stuff. “Diosa y
Hembra” was written in 1976, the artwork is Nora Gonzalez
Dodson. Decades later on a family trip to the British Isles we
learned about the work of Peig Sayers, a renowned storyteller of
the Irish Tradition. The Dingle News shares “…she married into
the Great Blasket…”. The Great Blasket, An Blascoad in Irish
Gaelic, is an island to the west of the Dingle Peninsula. The
weather is so intense th