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The Moths and Other Stories

by Helena Maria Viramontes · 1985

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Fiction. THE MOTHS AND OTHER STORIES, Helena Maria Viramontes' stories exploring women's struggles to overcome the dictates of family, culture, and church, is in a new edition. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop for these haunting stories, but their central, unifying theme deals with the social and cultural values which shape women's lives and which they struggle against with varying degrees of success.

Themes
feminismfeminismMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 125 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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