Book Description
A fictionalized biography of a Spanish swordswoman who flees the Inquisition and takes part with Cortés in the conquest of Mexico. After which she enters politics and becomes a champion of Indian rights.
Author : Gloria Durán
Publisher : Discoveries (Latin American Li
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A fictionalized biography of a Spanish swordswoman who flees the Inquisition and takes part with Cortés in the conquest of Mexico. After which she enters politics and becomes a champion of Indian rights.
Author : Harry W. Crosby
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826314956
This Spanish Borderlands classic recounts Jesuit colonization of the Old California, the peninsula now known as Baja California.
Author : Shirley Cushing Flint
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Married women
ISBN : 0826353118
"Shirley Flint explores the stories of three widows in Mexico City, giving us a glimpse at the structure of everyday life in colonial Mexico, especially the ways that women conducted business, practiced religion, and manipulated politics. Each of these widows' stories illustrates an often overlooked aspect of Spanish life in the New World"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Charles Gibson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 1964
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804701969
Here is the complete history of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, one of the two most important religious groups in the Spanish empire in America, from the Conquest to Independence in the early nineteenth century. Based upon ten years of research, this study focuses on the effect if Spanish institutions on Indian life at the local level.
Author : Gloria Durán
Publisher :
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 1997
Category :
ISBN : 9789683915917
Author : Shirley Cushing Flint
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0826353126
Three generations of women in one family are the characters in this intimate historical study of what it meant to be a widow in sixteenth-century Mexico City. Shirley Cushing Flint has used archival research to tell the stories of five women in the Estrada family—a mother, three daughters, and a granddaughter—from the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1520 until the 1580s. Each was once married and when widowed chose not to remarry. Their stories illustrate the constraints placed upon them both as women and as widows by the religious, secular, and legal cultures of the time and how each refused to be bound by those constraints. Money, influence, knowledge, and connections all come into play as the widows maneuver to hold onto property. Each of their stories illustrates an aspect of Spanish life in the New World that has heretofore been largely overlooked.
Author : Sherry Velasco
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292787469
"This book is an exciting, well-organized overview of the evolution of a cultural icon: the nun-ensign Catalina de Erauso. . . . It will be of interest not only to Hispanists, but also to students of gender, theater, and film." -Anne J. Cruz, Professor of Spanish, University of Illinois, Chicago Catalina de Erauso (1592-1650) was a Basque noblewoman who, just before taking final vows to become a nun, escaped from the convent at San Sebastián, dressed as a man, and, in her own words, "went hither and thither, embarked, went into port, took to roving, slew, wounded, embezzled, and roamed about." Her long service fighting for the Spanish empire in Peru and Chile won her a soldier's pension and a papal dispensation to continue dressing in men's clothing. This theoretically informed study analyzes the many ways in which the "Lieutenant Nun" has been constructed, interpreted, marketed, and consumed by both the dominant and divergent cultures in Europe, Latin America, and the United States from the seventeenth century to the present. Sherry Velasco argues that the ways in which literary, theatrical, iconographic, and cinematic productions have transformed Erauso's life experience into a public spectacle show how transgender narratives expose and manipulate spectators' fears and desires. Her book thus reveals what happens when the private experience of a transgenderist is shifted to the public sphere and thereby marketed as a hybrid spectacle for the curious gaze of the general audience.
Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher :
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Mexico
ISBN :
Author : Nina M. Scott
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780826321442
A bilingual anthology of writings by both secular and religious women writers from colonial Latin America through the 19th century.
Author : Deborah M. Liles
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1623497396
Winner, 2020 Liz Carpenter Award For Best Book on the History of Women The realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from tales—tall or true—of cowboys and cattlemen, to a century’s worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history. As women’s history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field worthy of study but as a bold and innovative way of understanding the past, new generations of scholars are rethinking the once-familiar settings of the past. In doing so, they reveal that women not only exercised agency in otherwise constrained environments but were also integral to the ranching heritage that so many Texans hold dear. Texas Women and Ranching: On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities explores a variety of roles women played on the western ranch. The essays here cover a range of topics, from early Tejana businesswomen and Anglo philanthropists to rodeos and fence-cutting range wars. The names of some of the women featured may be familiar to those who know Texas ranching history—Alice East and Frances Kallison, for example. Others came from less well-known or wealthy families. In every case, they proved themselves to be resourceful women and unique individuals who survived by their own wits in cattle country. This book is a major contribution to several fields—Texas history, western history, and women’s history—that are, at last, beginning to converge.