ANGHARAD N. VALDIVIA is Research Professor, former Head of Media and Cinema Studies, and former Interim Director of the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois. She is author of several books including A Latina in the Land of Hollywood, Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Media, and editor of the seven-volume International Encyclopedia of Media Studies.

Acknowledgments ix
1 Continuities and Ruptures: The Gender of Latinidad 1
2 Spitfire Transition Tales: The Production of a Career 25
3 An Unambivalent Structure of Ambivalence: Disney's Production of Latina Princesses 73
4 Latina/o Media Utopias: The Ideal Place or No Place 117
References 163
Index 183