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Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A note to the reader; Introduction; 1 Dress, clothing, fashion, and style; 1.1. The function of dress; 1.2. Clothing, fashion, and style; 2 The 20th century and fashion; 3 Style, subcultures, and Mexican American women; 4 Pachucas: breaking the norm in the Forties; 4.1. Life and expectations for US women in the Forties; 4.1.1. World War II and Mexican American women; 4.2. Women's fashion in the Forties; 4.3. The Pachuca: a rebel without a cause; 4.3.1. Pachucas, Pachucos, and the Zoot Suit Riots

Examines the organizing activities of La Mujer Obrera (The Woman Worker), a labor organization for Mexican-American women garment workers in El Paso, TX. The organization struggles to eliminate workplace abuses, eg, subminimum wages, the nonpayment of wages, & work speed-ups. The same market forces that drive the small, marginal shops to neglect health & safety standards, pay subminimum wages & pressure their workers to achieve high production quotas hamper La Mujer Obrera's organizing efforts. Although the organization has achieved a number of political victories, it is argued that it faces overwhelming problems deeply rooted in the structure of the clothing industry itself. 1 Figure, 86 References. Adapted from the source document.

There is a vast anthropological/sociological literature on the use of folk healers in Hispanic (Mexican - American) communities. While the use of folk healers has decreased with urbanization, acculturation, and increased education, recent studies done in Dallas, Texas, show that elderly Hispanic women are familiar with, and use a variety of informal healing methods and substances for a variety of illnesses, both physical and mental. The folk-healing system is used to supplement the formal scientific one, rather than replace it. Informants seemed to have a clear idea about the point at which one or the other should be consulted. There are a variety of herbs readily available for use and sold in boticas or botanicas.

Objective: Global recommendations on physical activity for noncommunicable disease prevention can be promoted using partner support strategies among women of Mexican descent and other ethnicities.Design/Methods: This systematic review utilized a multifaceted ecological approach by focusing comprehensively on communi­ty, individual, and social factors influencing physical activity. PubMed, SAGE Publica­tions, EBSCO, ResearchGate, the Cochrane Library and Google Scholar search engines were used to find research on physical activity, with inclusion criteria of Mexi­can American women, aged ≥ 18 years, comprising at least 50% of study population sizes.Main Outcome Measures: An initial search of 232 articles with subsequent searches from reference lists led to selection of a mixture of qualitative (3), mixed methods (3), and intervention (1) studies report­ing partner support for physical activity as perceived by women.Results: Primarily, studies have conceptual­ized physical activity as leisure time activi­ties. Few studies have considered multiple ecological factors in examining influences of physical activity among women. Important­ly, how women perceive support for physi­cal activity received from partners has been shown to influence their levels of activity.Conclusions: Conceptualization of physi­cal activity restricted only to leisure time eliminates other domains that a broader definition of the term encompasses. Future studies are needed to investigate partner support influences on the overall physical activity of Mexican American women within a larger ecological context. Careful attention to partner support for physical activity en­gagement can help ameliorate and prevent chronic diseases both nationally and around the world. Ethn Dis. 2018;28(4):555-560;doi:10.18865/ed.28.4.555.