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Overflowing with powerful testimonies of six female community activists who have lived and worked in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Chicanas of 18th Street reveals the convictions and approaches of those organizing for social reform. In chronicling a pivotal moment in the history of community activism in Chicago, the women discuss how education, immigration, religion, identity, and acculturation affected the Chicano movement. Chicanas of 18th Street underscores the hierarchies of race, gender, and class while stressing the interplay of individual and collective values in the development of community reform._x000B__x000B_Highlighting the women's motivations, initiatives, and experiences in politics during the 1960s and 1970s, these rich personal accounts reveal the complexity of the Chicano movement, conflicts within the movement, and the importance of teatro and cultural expressions to the movement. Also detailed are vital interactions between members of the Chicano movement with leftist and nationalist community members and the influence of other activist groups such as African Americans and Marxists.

Anne Goldstein was a mainstay in Chicago women's amateur sports during the Depression and war years, competing on the highest amateur levels in basketball and softball. In principle, these are sports open to anyone with a ball and a dream, but sometimes—too often—society erects barriers to suppress the participation of members of certain groups (in America, notably, Jews, Catholics, African Americans and women), who are made to seem unworthy to play mainstream sports. According to widespread stereotypes in her era, Anne Goldstein, as both a Jew and a woman, was not expected to be an athlete, let alone a highly accomplished one. Within her community, women were expected to be mothers, not athletes, and outside it Jews were deemed physically weak and unathletic. But there were progressive elements within the Jewish community that saw women athletes as a positive force in Jewish life and promoted the athletic achievements of Goldstein and her teammates.