Download or read book Latina Legacies written by Vicki L. Ruiz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As entrepreneurs, community activists, mystics, educators, feminists, labor organizers, artists and entertainers, Latinas used the power of the pen to traverse and transgress cultural conventions.