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"Genderqueering the Post-Borderlands demonstrates how queer genders and sexualities have played a crucial yet unrecognized role in the formation of racialized subjectivities in twentieth and twenty-first century Chicana literary texts. In examining how queer Chicana/o subjects attend to questions of genderqueerness, gender variance, and gender transgression, T. Jackie Cuevas reconsiders the relationship between gender and sexuality for racialized queer bodies. Cuevas analyzes themes and figures such as the Chicana butch, female masculinity, and transgender identities in texts by authors such as Jovita González, Helena María Viramontes, Felicia Luna Lemus, and Adelina Anthony. In exploring how queerness intervenes to destabilize notions of binary sex and gender, Cuevas calls for more expansive possibilities for what it means to be Chicana and exposes the limits of feminist and queer critiques that rely on dominant sex and gender binaries"--