IRENE I. BLEA is Director of Hispanic Student Services at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Before she accepted this administrative position, she was a full professor at Metropolitan State College in Denver for eleven years. Her publications include Toward a Chicano Social Science (Praeger, 1988)ssemer: A Sociological Perspective of a Chicano Barrioplayand numerous poems.

• Preface Chicana Scholarship and the Third World Perspective Spanish Impact on the Changing Roles of New World Women Colonial Women, Women of the Mexican-American War, and Women of the Mexican Revolution Americanization: Loss of Female Power and Prestige Contemporary Cultural Roles Elderly Chicanas Cultural Synthesis: Breaking Barriers and Defining New Roles Current Social Issues Theoretical Perspectives on the Intersection of Gender, Class, and Ethnicity New Directions in Chicana Feminist Theory and Practice Selected Bibliography Index

IRENE I. BLEA is Director of Hispanic Student Services at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Before she accepted this administrative position, she was a full professor at Metropolitan State College in Denver for eleven years. Her publications include Toward a Chicano Social Science (Praeger, 1988)ssemer: A Sociological Perspective of a Chicano Barrioplayand numerous poems.

• Preface Chicana Scholarship and the Third World Perspective Spanish Impact on the Changing Roles of New World Women Colonial Women, Women of the Mexican-American War, and Women of the Mexican Revolution Americanization: Loss of Female Power and Prestige Contemporary Cultural Roles Elderly Chicanas Cultural Synthesis: Breaking Barriers and Defining New Roles Current Social Issues Theoretical Perspectives on the Intersection of Gender, Class, and Ethnicity New Directions in Chicana Feminist Theory and Practice Selected Bibliography Index

IRENE I. BLEA is Director of Hispanic Student Services at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Before she accepted this administrative position, she was a full professor at Metropolitan State College in Denver for eleven years. Her publications include Toward a Chicano Social Science (Praeger, 1988)ssemer: A Sociological Perspective of a Chicano Barrioplayand numerous poems.

• Preface Chicana Scholarship and the Third World Perspective Spanish Impact on the Changing Roles of New World Women Colonial Women, Women of the Mexican-American War, and Women of the Mexican Revolution Americanization: Loss of Female Power and Prestige Contemporary Cultural Roles Elderly Chicanas Cultural Synthesis: Breaking Barriers and Defining New Roles Current Social Issues Theoretical Perspectives on the Intersection of Gender, Class, and Ethnicity New Directions in Chicana Feminist Theory and Practice Selected Bibliography Index