Norma E. CantÚ is a professor emerita of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the author of CanÍcula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera and coeditor of meXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction. Olga NÁjera-RamÍrez is a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of La Fiesta de los Tastoanes: Critical Encounters in a Mexican Festival Performance and the writer, director, and producer of the award-winning documentary La Charreada: Rodeo a la Mexicana.

Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award given by the Joint Women's Caucus of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, 2003.  A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003."A fascinating read which spans the gap between Chicana literary and art criticism."--Enrique R. Lamadrid, author of Nuevo MÉxico Profundo "Those who want to avoid the cliches of tradition vs. modernity or the implicit dichotomies set up by opposing culture to feminism will find that this rich set of essays opens the doors to a broad range of options inherent in Mexican American traditions as well as to its restraints."--Beverly Stoeltje, Indiana University