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.

• PrefaceChicana Scholarship and the Third World PerspectiveSpanish Impact on the Changing Roles of New World WomenColonial Women, Women of the Mexican-American War, and Women of the Mexican RevolutionAmericanization: Loss of Female Power and PrestigeContemporary Cultural RolesElderly ChicanasCultural Synthesis: Breaking Barriers and Defining New RolesCurrent Social IssuesTheoretical Perspectives on the Intersection of Gender, Class, and EthnicityNew Directions in Chicana Feminist Theory and PracticeSelected BibliographyIndex

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.

• PrefaceChicana Scholarship and the Third World PerspectiveSpanish Impact on the Changing Roles of New World WomenColonial Women, Women of the Mexican-American War, and Women of the Mexican RevolutionAmericanization: Loss of Female Power and PrestigeContemporary Cultural RolesElderly ChicanasCultural Synthesis: Breaking Barriers and Defining New RolesCurrent Social IssuesTheoretical Perspectives on the Intersection of Gender, Class, and EthnicityNew Directions in Chicana Feminist Theory and PracticeSelected BibliographyIndex

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.

• PrefaceChicana Scholarship and the Third World PerspectiveSpanish Impact on the Changing Roles of New World WomenColonial Women, Women of the Mexican-American War, and Women of the Mexican RevolutionAmericanization: Loss of Female Power and PrestigeContemporary Cultural RolesElderly ChicanasCultural Synthesis: Breaking Barriers and Defining New RolesCurrent Social IssuesTheoretical Perspectives on the Intersection of Gender, Class, and EthnicityNew Directions in Chicana Feminist Theory and PracticeSelected BibliographyIndex