Description: These essays analyze and interpret studies on women's roles in the American West.
Brief description: Vicki L. Ruiz is Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the award-winning author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America, and a co-editor of Unequal Sisters: a Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History.