num_pages: 125
description: Fiction. THE MOTHS AND OTHER STORIES, Helena Maria Viramontes' stories exploring women's struggles to overcome the dictates of family, culture, and church, is in a new edition. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop for these haunting stories, but their central, unifying theme deals with the social and cultural values which shape women's lives and which they struggle against with varying degrees of success.
language: English
title: The Moths and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Moths and Other Stories
genres: Short Stories, Female Authors, School, Womens, Literature, Feminism, Fiction
ratings_count: 452
publisher: Arte Publico Press