ABSTRACT
El Movimiento favoured the vindication of a culturally relevant homeland, Aztlan, as the means to empower the community's political goals. The symbolic concept and political plan represented the Chicana/o community's long history of discrimination in the US Southwest. Despite the call for the centrality of family, home and brotherhood expressed by El Movimiento, little was said about the need for gender equality and the way in which tradition maintained Chicanas' triple oppression as working, coloured women. Some Chicanas believed that El Movimiento should adapt to modern times and that only by overcoming these gender inequalities would the community be able to fight united. As a result, their feeling towards the Movement's agenda was conflicted. Thus, the trope of the border becomes key when understanding both the space they inhabit, as a geopolitical entity, and themselves, as individuals who live in, between or parted by it.
