Teaching mothers how to teach their children is the goal of Avance, a program here for low-income Mexican-American women with children under 4.

Mexican-American women organized to assist their servicemen and the war effort.

Many of the 22 stories in her second collection are about Mexican-American women, struggling with culture shock or faithless lovers.

She was the first Mexican-American woman to serve as deputy mayor of Los Angeles.

She is the first Mexican-American woman to serve in Congress.

Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy use by older Mexican-American women.

Mexican and Mexican-American women felt they were being left out by men when they spoke about "La Familia".

She is thought to be the only Mexican-American woman to have a theatre named after her.

Maggie Chascarrillo, a bisexual Mexican-American woman, is the main attraction of this huge hardcover collection.

"My husband was at the butcher, and the other customers backed away from him," said one Mexican-American woman, a restaurateur, who asked not to be identified.