Women On The U.S.-Mexico Border

Vicki L.Ruiz

• 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