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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Vicki Ruíz |
| ISBN: | 9780195374773 0195374770 9780195374780 0195374789 |
| OCLC Number: | 223877903 |
| Description: | xv, 258 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction; 1. Border Journeys; 2. Confronting "America"; 3. The Flapper and the Chaperone; 4. With Pickets, Baskets, and Ballots; 5. La Nueva Chicana: Women and the Movement; 6. Claiming Public Space; Afterword. |
| Responsibility: | Vicki L. Ruiz. |
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"A rich source book and an excellent overview of Mexican American women's crucial contributions to labor organizing, community formation, and social movements in the West and Southwest."--Women's Review of Books
"Not only celebrates the lives of Mexican women in the United States but provides a blueprint for social justice and human dignity."--Journal of American History
"In...a stirring portrayal of women's courage and agency, Ruiz's book epitomizes illuminative scholarship."--Latin American Research Review
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