Moya (2001), "Chicana Feminism and Postmodern Theory"

1. Feminist politics have often neglected to account for Chicana identities.

Moya (2001) explains how many Chicanas resisted feminism in the 1970s because they felt feminism privileged gender over other identity factors. Many Chicanas focused instead on racial politics. Moya's (2001) critique of postmodern theory and identity politics is an attempt to move beyond the factors that caused this rift between feminism and Chicana politics.

2. Moya (2001) advocates a postpositivist realist theoretical approach.

She rejects the postmodern idea that identities are "radically unstable," and instead argues that identities are based on material conditions and experiences. Moya (2001) argues that postmodernist frameworks fail to account for the relationship between social location, experience, and identity, since postmodernism sees these areas as slippery. Moya (2001) stresses the importance of discursive and nondiscursive domains that acknowledge and celebrate concrete differences.