"In 1987, Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera offered a radical reimagining of the borderlands as a physical and metaphorical space, forcing scholars inside and outside of the academy to consider how sex and gender structured power relations and historically shaped struggles for dignity and survival. Inspired by Anzaldua's path breaking analysis, a generation of students in Chicana/o studies pushed borderlands research in new directions, putting women's bodies at the forefront."