Latina Activists across Borders: Women's Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas

by Milagros Peña

Book Overview

Over the past twenty-five years, nongovernment organizations (NGOs) run by women and devoted to advancing women's well-being have proliferated in Mexico and along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. In this sociological analysis of grassroots activism, Milagros Pe a compares women's NGOs in two regions--the state of Michoac n in central Mexico and the border region encompassing El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Ju rez, Mexico. In both Michoac n and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082233951X
• ISBN13: 9780822339519
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.0" x 6.1"