Chela Sandoval has four sisters, Janet, Robin, Sandy and Julie.
11 Facts About Chela Sandoval
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Chela Sandoval received a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of science from UC Santa Cruz.
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Chela Sandoval became interested in feminism in 1971 when she enrolled in a course "Women in Literature".
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In 1978, Chela Sandoval moved to New York to intern at ABC News, a position arranged for her by Barbara Walters.
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However, ultimately Chela Sandoval decided to pursue a doctorate rather than documentary film career.
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Chela Sandoval has cited Hayden White, Donna Haraway, James Clifford and Teresa de Lauretis as her mentors at Santa Cruz.
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Chela Sandoval's dissertation developed her first major theoretical contribution, the idea of oppositional consciousness.
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Chela Sandoval wrote a report on behalf of the Third World Women's Alliance following a divisive splintering around the 1981 National Women's Studies Association conference's theme of women and racism.
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Chela Sandoval's work has been widely influential within second wave feminism and her notion of oppositional consciousness is central to Donna Haraway's cyborg feminism.
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In more recent years, Chela Sandoval has joined her earlier interests in culture with her work on oppositional consciousness to focus on what she terms artivism, a neologism she developed with Guisella LaTorre to describe activist art.
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Chela Sandoval has proposed anti-gender feminism as a type of feminism which regards gender as a harmful social construct based on the model of anti-racism discourse.