A powerful story of losses, triumphs, and the strong ties that bind a working-class Tejano family in the Texas panhandle.

A comparative reading of literature by Mexicanas and Chicanas, including Sandra Cisneros, Laura Esquivel, Carmen Boullosa, and Helena María Viramontes, that raises compelling questions about the very nature of cultural constructs in literature.

Placing texts of Chicana/o indigenism and nationalism alongside European and Euro-American ethnographic, travel, and journalistic writing, this is the first comprehensive, comparative literary study of its kind.

A firsthand history of a Chicana women's political theatre group that operated in the 1970s and 1980s in San Diego.

An exploration into how Mexican-origin women’s reproduction has been stereotyped and demonized in the United States.

A model for telling the multicultural history of the American West, starting with Napa County, California.

A series of wide-ranging essays on the growth--and marginalization--of Chicana/Latina literature, criticism, and art.

The first history of Chicana lesbian writing from the 1970s until today.

The first comparative study of the literature and cultures of three distinct yet interrelated ethnic groups: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and Chicanos.

Analyzing the "in-between" spaces in Moraga’s writing where race, gender, class, and sexuality intermingle, this first book-length study of Moraga’s work focuses on her writing of the body and related material practices of sex, desire, and pleasure.