Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and ArtSince the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria Anzald a, Cherr e Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked iconic Mexican cultural symbols such as mother earth goddesses and La Llorona (the Wailing Woman of Mexican folklore), re imagining them as powerful female figures. After reading the works of Chicana writers who created bold, powerful, and openly sexual female characters, Debra J. Blake wondered how everyday