Latina Activists across Borders: Women’s Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas
“Latina Activists across Bordersis a significant contribution to research on gender and grassroots social movements. Milagros Peña’s analysis of the tensions between faith-based organizing, different types of feminisms, and class-centered ‘popular’ social movements challenges ahistorical paradigms of women’s grassroots activism. And her narratives of women self-consciously developing gendered senses of self are remarkable illustrations of the ways feminism and spiritual agency interact on both sides of the border.”—Denise A. Segura, coeditor ofWomen and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader