SOURCE: "'Yo Sola Aprendi': Mexican Women's Personal Narratives from Nineteenth-Century California," in Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Gender, edited by Susan Groag Bell and Marilyn Yalom, State University of New York Press, 1990, pp. 115-29.
In the essay below, Padilla explores Mexican women's accounts of life in California before it became part of the United States.
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