Synopses & Reviews
This collection of essays by leading scholars in Mexican ethnohistory, edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, examines the life experiences of Indian women in preconquest colonial Mexico.
In this volume: "Introduction," Susan Schroeder; "Mexica Women on the Home Front," Louise M. Burkhart; "Aztec Wives," Arthur J. O. Anderson; "Indian-Spanish Marriages in the First Century of the Colony," Pedro Carrasco; "Gender and Social Identity," Rebecca Horn; "From Parallel and Equivalent to Separate but Unequal: Tenochca Mexica Women, 1500-1700," Susan Kellogg; "Activist or Adulteress/ The Life and Struggle of Doña Josefa Mará of Tepoztlan," Robert Haskett; "Matters of Life at Death," Stephanie Wood; "Mixteca Cacicas," Ronald Spores; "Women and Crime in Colonial Oaxaca," Lisa Mary Sousa; "Women, Rebellion, and the Moral Economy of Maya Peasants in Colonial Mexico," Kevin Gosner; "Work, Marriage, and Status: Maya Women of Colonial Yucatan," Marta Espejo-Ponce Hunt and Matthew Restall; "Double Jeopardy," Susan M. Deeds; "Womens Voices from the Frontier," Leslie S. Offutt; "Rethinking Malinche," Frances Karttunen; "Concluding Remarks," Stephanie Wood and Robert Haskett.
Review
andldquo;A welcome addition to the colonial Mexican bibliography, both as a supplementary textbook for university teaching and as a scholarly resource.and#160;.and#160;.and#160;. The bookandrsquo;s fourteen essays are distinguished by their regional foci and cluster thematically around women in the family, inheritance, marital patterns, and sexuality as well as womenandrsquo;s roles as economic producers and active participants in religious movements and open rebellions in the context of Iberian colonialism.andrdquo;andmdash;American Historical Review
Review
andldquo;This volume takes the reader on a most rewarding voyage of rediscovery of Indian womanhood in colonial Mexico.and#160;.and#160;.and#160;. Without having to argue any brand of historical feminism, or strictly adhering to anyWestern theoretical conceptualization, the authors succeed in putting together a compelling array of information that both fascinates and informs.andrdquo;andmdash;Journal of Latin American Studies
Synopsis
This collection of essays by leading scholars in Mexican ethnohistory, edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, examines the life experiences of Indian women in preconquest colonial Mexico.
Synopsis
This volume counters the stereotype that Indian women are without history. Neither silent nor invisible, women of early Mexico were active participants in society and critically influenced the direction history would take. This collection of essays by leading scholars in Mexican ethnohistory, edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, examines the life experiences of Indian women in preconquest and colonial Mexico.
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Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-466) and index.
About the Author
SusanSchroeder is Professor Emeritus of History at Tulane University and coeditor of
Indian Women of Early Mexico and
Chimalpahinandrsquo;s Conquest: A Nahua Historianandrsquo;s Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Comaraandrsquo;s andldquo;La Conquista de Mexico.andrdquo;
Stephanie Wood, Director of the Wired Humanities Projects, University of Oregon, is coeditor of Mesoamerican Memory: Enduring Systems of Remembrance and Indian Women of Early Mexico, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.Robert Haskett, Professor of History, University of Oregon, is the author of Visions of Paradise: Primordial Titles and Mesoamerican History in Cuernavaca.