Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader
- ISBN-10
- 0822341182
- ISBN-13
- 9780822341185
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 595
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Authors
- Patricia Zavella, Denise A. Segura
Description
Seminal essays on how women adapt to the structural transformations caused by the large migration from Mexico to the U.S.A., how they create or contest representations of their identities in light of their marginality, and give voice to their own agency.
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