Irene I. BleaIRENE I. BLEA is Chairperson of the Chicano Studies Department, California State University, Los Angeles. A well-respected feminist scholar of U.S. life and culture, she has published extensively, including Toward a Chicano Social Science (Prager, 1988), La Chicana and the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender (Praeger, 1991), and Researching Chicano Communities: Social-Historical, Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Space (Praeger, 1995). Read More Read Less