ABSTRACT
Chicanas are vital, active agents in the public spaces of political life in communities and workplaces, but they act in a historically situated context of sexism, racism, and classism. Indeed the public discourse on the social action movements of the 1960s and 1970s has been demarcated by Chicano men or Anglo, middle-class feminists. Chicanas have been routinely excluded from analyses of the political process, based on assumptions that they reflect ethnic and class interests identical to those of Chicano men or Anglo women.
