Introduction: Latina girls transforming cultures, contexts, and selves

Latina Girls: Voices of Adolescent Strength in the U.S.

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-14

  Denner, Jill ^a   Guzmán, Bianca L ^b  

^a ETR ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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