This book, based upon informal interviews and participant observation, provides in-depth knowledge of one segment of the contemporary Chicana community. Zavella challenges a number of prevailing stereotypes about Mexican American women that continue to be perpetuated by certain scholars. For example, the women are not passive, as some sociologists would have us believe. Women's Work and Chicano Families needs to be ready by scholars interested in gender roles, the family, race and ethnic relations, and the labor force. If it reaches this broader audience, social scientists may come to rethink some of their current generalizations about minority women.