Coll (feminist studies and anthropology, Stanford U.) presents an ethnographic study of Latina immigrant women in San Francisco during the 1990s, focusing on the construction of cultural citizenship, the process by which the immigrant women come to think of themselves as legitimate, rights-bearing members of US society. She examines the activities and experiences of the women of the Mujeres Unidas y Activas organization, exploring how their interactions with public institutions affected their sense of place in the society, their senses of autoestima (self-esteem) and its relation to their claims of rights as immigrants, and the ways that the Mujeres Unidas y Activas engaged in collaborative projects with other organizations and the impact of these activities on the women's views of cultural citizenship. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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