ABSTRACT
As a child, Angélica started her own business making and selling clay toothpick holders and crocheted glass covers in order to buy her own sewing machine. “I wanted to be a great person, a dress designer, . . . What I have thought all my life, since I was a child, is that you only need a little interest and some gumption and you can get ahead” (Wasserspring, 2000, p. 67). Unfortunately, gumption was not a valued attribute for women in Atzompa, Mexico.
