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Indian Women of Early Mexico Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Schroeder, Susan (Editor), Wood, Stephanie (Editor), Haskett, Robert (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0806129603     ISBN-13: 9780806129600
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
OUR PRICE: $26.20  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 1997
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
- History | Latin America - Mexico
Dewey: 305.488
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (1.55 lbs) 500 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Mexican
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
 
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Publisher Description:
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 Do a Josefa Mar 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; "Women's Voices from the Frontier," Leslie S. Offutt; "Rethinking Malinche," Frances Karttunen; "Concluding Remarks," Stephanie Wood and Robert Haskett. Susan Schroeder is Professor of History at Loyola University, Chicago. Stephanie Wood is Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. She is coeditor of Indian Women of Early Mexico, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Robert Haskett is Professor of History at the University of Oregon.

Contributor Bio(s): Schroeder, Susan: - Susan Schroeder is France Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History Emerita at Tulane University and coeditor of Indian Women of Early Mexico and Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco López de Gómara's "La Conquista de México."Wood, Stephanie: -

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.

Haskett, Robert: - Robert Haskett, Professor of History, University of Oregon, is the author of Visions of Paradise: Primordial Titles and Mesoamerican History in Cuernavaca.
 
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