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Copyright © 1998 by Vicki L. Ruiz

First published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 1998

First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1999

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ruiz, Vicki.

From out of the shadows: Mexican women
in twentieth-century America / Vicki L. Ruiz.
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-19-511483-3
ISBN 0-19-513099-5 (Pbk.)

1. Mexican American women--History-- 20th century.
2. Mexican American women--Social conditions.
I. Title E184.M5R86 1997
305.48′86872073--dc21 97-9387

Permission credits:
Sections of Chapter 2 were published as
"Dead Ends or Gold Mines: Using Missionary Records
in Mexican American Women's History,"
Frontiers 12:1 ( 1991): 35-56.

An earlier draft of Chapter 3 was published as
"The Flapper and the Chaperone: Historical Memory Among Mexican American Women"
in Seeking Common Ground: A Multidisciplinary Reader
on Immigrant Women in the United States," ed. Donna Gabaccia ( Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992), pp. 141-157.

"University Avenue" by Pat Mora
is reprinted with permission from the publisher
of Borders ( Houston: Arte Público Press, 1986).

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