From coveralls to zoot suits the lives of Mexican American women on the World War II home front /
Elizabeth R. Escobedo.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (229 pages) illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
The Pachuca panic -- Americanos todos : Mexican Women and the wartime state and media -- Reenvisioning Rosie : Mexican Women and wartime defense work -- Respectable rebellions : Mexican women and the world of wartime leisure -- Rights and postwar life.
9781469602066
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