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Vol. 2, No. 1 = No. 4 (1999 Winter)

Mexican Women Confront Mainstream Policy: Voices from the Colonias Address Family Self-sufficiency

  • Georgiana Vaccaro
  • Ann Lessem
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21423/awlj-v0.a59
Submitted
June 15, 2017
Published
2017-06-12

Abstract

The practice of allowing "family self-sufficiency" to become tantamount to the family's adoption of legislated middle class values might limit access to these social services to women who are willing to compromise their own culture.