Gender on the Borderlands captures the intense, complex, and gendered experience of those living along the barbwire borderlands of Mexico and the United States. Through scholarship, testimonials, oral histories, songs, poetry, and art, the contributors reclaim the borderlands from the distortions and violence of official history and continue the recovery of a gendered Chicana/Chicano history begun by Gloria Anzaldua in Borderlands/La Frontera more than twenty years ago. Both noted and new scholars reweave the fabric of collective, family, and individual history with a legacy of agency and activism in the borderlands in these twenty-one original selections. Contributors explore themes of homeland, sexuality, language, violence, colonialism, and political resistance within the most recent frameworks of Chicana/Chicano inquiry. Art as social critique, culture as a human right, labor activism, racial plurality, Indigenous knowledge, and strategies of decolonization all vitalize these selections edited by one of the country's most respected historians of the borderlands, Antonia Castaneda.From Aztec cosmology to globalization, Gender on the Borderlands unites the past with the present and the future to reclaim and transform the gendered, transnational domain along the Mexico-U.S. border. Antonia Castaneda, born in Texas and raised in the state of Washington, is an associate professor of history at Saint Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. Susan H. Armitage is a professor of history at Washington State University and is the former faculty editor of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Patricia Hart teaches in the School of Journalism and Mass Media and is the coordinator of the American studies program at the University of Idaho. She is the former managing editor of Frontiers. Karen Weathermon, former assistant editor of Frontiers, directs Washington State University's Writing Across the Curriculum program and serves as the book review editor of Issues in Writing. Contributors include Katherine Benton-Cohen, Maria Antonietta Berriozabal, Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez, Gabriel S. Estrada, Priscilla Falcon, Deena J. Gonzalez, Gabriela Gonzalez, Virginia Grise, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Judith L.Huacja, Amy Kastely, Yolanda Chavez Leyva, Clara Lomas, Maria de la Luz Ibarra, Emma Perez, Anita Tijerina Revilla, Graciela I. Sanchez, Carmen Tafolla, Deborah R. Vargas, and Theresa A. Ybanez.

"Chicana Leadership: The "Frontiers" Reader" breaks the stereotypes of Mexican American women and shows how these women shape their lives and communities. This collection looks beyond the frequently held perception of Chicanas as passive and submissive and instead examines their roles as dynamic community leaders, activists, and scholars.

"Chicana Leadership" features fifteen essays from the notable women's journal Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies that demonstrate the strength and diversity of Chicanas as well as their continuing struggle to have their voices heard. Noted scholars discuss issues ranging from the feminist prototype La Malinche to Chicana writers and national ideology, from gender and identity to ideas of culture and romance, and from tokenism to the diversity within the Chicana community. The essays provide an introduction to an evolving understanding of this diverse community of women and how they interact among themselves, with their community, and with the world around them.