From Coveralls to Zoot Suits
The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
By Elizabeth R. Escobedo
256 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 18 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-2209-5
Published: February 2015 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-0206-6
Published: March 2013 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-4335-7
Published: March 2013
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Awards & distinctions
2014 Armitage-Jameson Book Prize, Coalition for Western Women's History
Best History Book - English, International Latino Book Awards
But even after the war, as Escobedo shows, Mexican American women had to continue challenging workplace inequities and confronting family and communal resistance to their broadening public presence. Highlighting seldom heard voices of the "Greatest Generation," Escobedo examines these contradictions within Mexican families and their communities, exploring the impact of youth culture, outside employment, and family relations on the lives of women whose home-front experiences and everyday life choices would fundamentally alter the history of a generation.
About the Author
Elizabeth R. Escobedo is associate professor of history at the University of Denver.
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