"What the women I write about have in common is that they are all rebels with a cause, and I see myself represented in their mirror," asserts Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Looking back across a career in which she has written novels, poems, and scholarly works about Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz, la Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, the murdered women of Ju?rez, the Salem witches, and Chicana lesbian feminists, Gaspar de Alba realized that what links these historically...