IRENE I. BLEA is Chairperson of the Chicano Studies Department, California State University, Los Angeles. A well-respected feminist scholar of U.S. life and culture, she has published extensively, including Toward a Chicano Social Science (Praeger, 1988), La Chicana and the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender (Praeger, 1991), and Researching Chicano Communities: Social-Historical, Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Space (Praeger, 1995).

• Introduction The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women Struggling to Participate Defining Chicana Feminism Cultural Sovereignty The Feminization of Racism: Challenging a Colonial Legacy Existing in a State of Colonialization U.S. Expansion and Resistance to the Americanization Process Chicana Feminist Movement Decentralizing White Patriarchy Selected Bibliography Index

IRENE I. BLEA is Chairperson of the Chicano Studies Department, California State University, Los Angeles. A well-respected feminist scholar of U.S. life and culture, she has published extensively, including Toward a Chicano Social Science (Praeger, 1988), La Chicana and the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender (Praeger, 1991), and Researching Chicano Communities: Social-Historical, Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Space (Praeger, 1995).

• Introduction The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women Struggling to Participate Defining Chicana Feminism Cultural Sovereignty The Feminization of Racism: Challenging a Colonial Legacy Existing in a State of Colonialization U.S. Expansion and Resistance to the Americanization Process Chicana Feminist Movement Decentralizing White Patriarchy Selected Bibliography Index

IRENE I. BLEA is Chairperson of the Chicano Studies Department, California State University, Los Angeles. A well-respected feminist scholar of U.S. life and culture, she has published extensively, including Toward a Chicano Social Science (Praeger, 1988), La Chicana and the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender (Praeger, 1991), and Researching Chicano Communities: Social-Historical, Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Space (Praeger, 1995).

• Introduction The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women Struggling to Participate Defining Chicana Feminism Cultural Sovereignty The Feminization of Racism: Challenging a Colonial Legacy Existing in a State of Colonialization U.S. Expansion and Resistance to the Americanization Process Chicana Feminist Movement Decentralizing White Patriarchy Selected Bibliography Index