Table of Contents
Introduction — Labor, Migration, and Relations of Production — Women's Work and Unemployment in Northern Mexico — Female Mexican Immigrants in San Diego County — By the Day or the Week: Mexicana Domestic Workers in El Paso — Maquiladoras in Mexicali: Integration or Exploitation? — Consciousness, Organization, and Empowerment — Gender Identification and Working-Class Solidarity among Maquila Workers in Ciudad Juárez: Stereotypes and Realities — Tortuosidad: Shop Floor Struggles of Female Maquiladora Workers — Programming Women's Empowerment: A Case from Northern Mexico — Culture, Creativity, and Relations of Reproduction — Shipwrecked in the Desert: A Short History of the Mexican Sisters of the House of the Providence in Douglas, Arizona, 1927—1949 — Changes in Funeral Patterns and Gender Roles among Mexican Americans — Oral History and La Mujer: The Rosa Guerrero Story — Conclusion
