Publications-Books:
Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader, co-edited with Denise A. Segura. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader, co-edited with Gabriela Arredondo, Aída Hurtado, Norma Klahn, and Olga Nájera Ramírez. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation co-edited with Matthew C. Gutmann, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, and Lynn Stephen. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003.

Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios co-authored with Luz del Alba Acevedo, Norma Alarcón, Celia Alvarez, Ruth Behar, Rina Benmayor, Norma E. Cantú. Daisy Cocco de Filippis, Gloria Holguín Cuádraz, Liza Fiol-Matta, Yvette Flores-Ortiz, Inés Hernández-Avila, Aurora Levins Morales, Clara Lomas, Iris López, Mirtha N. Quintanales, Eliana Rivero, and Caridad Souza. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life co-edited with Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragoné. New York: Routledge Press, 1997.

Louise Lamphere, Felipe Gonzales, with Peter B. Evans. Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family, and Factory. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Journal Articles:
Patricia Zavella and Xóchitl Castañeda, “Sexuality and Risks: Gendered Discourses about Virginity and Disease among Young Women of Mexican Origin.” Latino Studies 3 (2), 2005, pp. 226-245.

Xóchitl Castañeda and Patricia Zavella, “Changing Constructions of Sexuality and Risk: Migrant Mexican Women Farmworkers in California,” Journal of Latin American Anthropology 8(2): 126-150, 2003.

“Comentários sobre teorias feministas na(s) América(s) Latina(s): a politica transnacional do traducão (Feminist Theories in the Latin/a Américas: The Transnational Politics of Translation),” Revista Estudos Feministas, vol. 8, no. 2, 2000, pp. 109-112.

“Latinos in the USA: Changing Socio-Economic Patterns," Social and Cultural Geography, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2000, pp. 155-167.

Paule Cruz Takash and Patricia Zavella, "Gender and Power: Reconstructing Latino Ethnography,” Introduction to Special Issue on Latino Ethnography, Urban Anthropology 22 (3-4), 1993, pp. 231-237.

"Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Identity with 'Chicana' Informants," Frontiers, a Journal of Women's Studies (Special Issue on Feminist Ethnography), Vol. 13, no. 3, 1993, pp. 53-76.

Reprinted in Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork, Diane L. Wolf, Ed. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996, pp. 138-169.

Reprinted in Situated Lives: Gender, Culture, and Practice in Everyday Life, co-edited by Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragoné, and Patricia Zavella. New York: Routledge Press, 1997, pp. 42-61.

Reprinted in Feminist Anthropology: Ellen Lewin, Ed. London: Blackwell, 2006, pp. 186-203.

"Reflections on Diversity Among Chicanas," Frontiers, a Journal of Women's Studies Vol. 13, No. 2, 1991, pp. 73-85.

Reprinted in Chicana Leadership: The Frontiers Reader, Yolanda Flores Niemann, with Susan H. Armitage, Patricia Hart, and Karen Weathermon, Eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002, pp. 107-119.

Reprinted in An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World, Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan, Eds. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2002, pp. 214-218.

Reprinted in Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the United States, Mary Romero, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Vilma Ortiz, Eds. New York: Routledge, 1997, pp. 187-194.

Reprinted in Race, Steven Gregory and Roger Sanjek, Eds. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994, pp. 199-212.

"The Problematic Relationship of Feminism and Chicana Studies," Women's Studies 17(1-2) 1989, 123-143.

Reprinted in Across Cultures: The Spectrum of Women's Lives, Emily K. Abel and Marjorie L. Pearson, Eds. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1989.

"Abnormal Intimacy:' The Varying Work Networks of Chicana Cannery Workers," Feminist Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3, Summer l985, pp. 541-558.

Reprinted in Latina Issues: Fragments of Historia (Ella) (Herstory), Antoinette Sedillo López, Ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995, pp. 413-429.

Reprinted in The Sociology of Work: Concepts and Cases, Carol J. Auster, ed., Pine Force Press, 1996.

"The Impact of `Sun Belt Industrialization' on Chicanas," Frontiers, a Journal of Women's Studies Vol. 8, No. 1, 1984, pp. 21-27.

Reprinted in The Women's West, ed. Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson, Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1987, pp. 291-304. Book awarded the Susan Koppleman Award by the Popular Culture Association in 1988.

Reprinted in The Reshaping of America, ed. Maxine Baca Zinn. New Brunswick: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1988, pp. 227-237.

Reprinted in History of Women in America, Nancy Cott and Jaime Horowitz, Eds. Westport, CN: Meckler Corporation, 1990.

Book Chapters:
Xóchitl Castañeda and Patricia Zavella, “La Migración y El Cuerpo: Mujeres Mexicanas que trabajan en el agro de California,” pp. 77-96 in Compartiendo historias de fronteras: Cuerpos, géneros, generaciones y salud, El Consorcio Transfronterizo, Catalina A. Denman, Janice Monk and Norma Ojeda de la Peña, Eds. Hermosillo: El Colegio de Sonora, 2004.

"Talkin’ Sex: Chicanas and Mexicanas Theorize about Silences and Sexual Pleasures," in Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader, Gabriela Arredondo, Aída Hurtado, Norma Klahn, Olga Nájera Ramírez and eds. Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 228-253.

"Introduction: Papelitos Guardados: Theorizing Latinidades through Testimonio," "Silence Begins at Home," and "Tenemos que Seguir Luchando," in Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonio, the Latina Feminist Group. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

"Engendering Transnationalism in Food Processing: Peripheral Vision on Both Sides of the U.S.-Mexico Border," in Las Nuevas Fronteras del Siglo XXI: Dimensiones Culturales, Políticas y Socioeconómicas de las Relaciones México-Estados Unidos (New Frontiers in the Twenty First Century: Cultural, Political and Socioeconomic Dimensions of US-Mexico Relations), Norma Klahn, Alejandro Álvarez Béjar, Federico Manchón, and, Pedro Castillo, eds. Mexico City: La Jornada Ediciones y Centro de Investigaciones Colección: la democracia en México, 2000, pp. 397-424.

Reprinted in Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes and Cultures, Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez and Anna Sampaio, Eds., with Manolo González-Estay. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002, pp. 225-245.

"Bibliography on Chicana/Latina Sexuality," in Syllabi and Instructional Materials for Chicano and Latino Studies in Sociology, Mary Romero, ed. Fourth Edition. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association Teaching Resource Center, 1998, pp. 85-93.

"'Playing with Fire': The Gendered Construction of Chicana/Mexicana Sexuality," The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy, edited by Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo. New York: Routledge, 1997, pp. 402-418.

Louise Lamphere and Patricia Zavella, "Women's Resistance in the Sunbelt: Anglos and Hispanas Respond to Managerial Control" in Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Class, Elizabeth Higginbotham and Mary Romero, Eds. Thousand Oakes: SAGE, 1997, pp. 76-100.

Reprinted in Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life, co-edited by Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragoné, and Patricia Zavella. New York: Routledge Press, 1997, pp. 337-354.

Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragoné and Patricia Zavella, "Introduction," Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life, co-edited with Louise Lamphere and Helena Ragoné. New York: Routledge Press, 1997, pp. 1-18.

"'The Tables are Turned': Immigration, Poverty, and Social Conflict in California Communities," Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States, Juan Perea, Ed. New York: New York University Press, 1997, pp. 136-161.

Reprinted in New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics and Impoverished People in the United States, Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky, editors. New York: New York University Press, 2001, pp. 103-131.

"Living on the Edge: Everyday Lives of Poor Chicano/Mexicano Families." In Mapping Multiculturalism, Avery Gordon and Christopher Newfield, Eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996, pp. 362-386.

"Mujeres in Factories: Race and Class Perspectives on Women, Work and Family," In Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era, Micaela di Leonardo, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, pp. 312-336.

"The Politics of Race and Gender: Organizing Chicana Cannery Workers in Northern California," in Women and the Politics of Empowerment: Perspectives from the Workplace and the Community, Ann Bookman and Sandra Morgen, Eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988, pp. 202-224.

Reprinted in Chicana Critical Issues, MALCS Editorial Board, Eds. Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1993, pp. 127-153.

"El efecto del trabajo en las fábricas sobre las familias Chicanas en las que trabajan ambos cónyuges," in Culturas Hispanas en los Estados Unidos de América, María Jesús Buxó Rey y Tomás Calvo Buezas, Eds. Madrid: Ediciones de Cultura Hispánica, 1990, pp. 171-180.