Women have had a long-standing battle when it has come to being respected as complex, educated, strong individuals, whose contributions to American society are equal, if not at times greater, than that of their male counterparts. For Latinas, the battle is fiercer, for not only do they have to define their rights as women, but also assert themselves in a society that is still struggling with accepting the true diversity of the American Diaspora. How do Latina women, born in the United States, balance liberal North American values with their ethnic cultural traditions? How does self-esteem develop for a group who has been misrepresented or underrepresented by mass media? How do experiences such as illness, poverty, success, education, age and death of loved ones affect who they are? And ultimately, if stripped of materials that may define the experiences of these women, could their faces, their gazes and their bodies tell us who they really are?