The secret history of gender : women, men, and power in late colonial Mexico /

In this study of gender relations in late colonial Mexico (ca. 1760-1821), Steve Stern analyzes the historical connections between gender, power, and politics in the lives of peasants, Indians, and other marginalized peoples. Through vignettes of everyday life, including the routine conflicts and vi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stern, Steve J., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Español
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995.
Temas:
Geschichte 1760-1821.
Sex role > Mexico > History.
Power (Social sciences) > Mexico > History.
Rural women > Mexico > Social conditions.
Peasants > Mexico > History.
Gender Identity > history
Social Conditions > history
Rôle selon le sexe > Mexique > Histoire.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) > Mexique > Histoire.
Femmes en milieu rural > Mexique > Conditions sociales.
Paysannerie > Mexique > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Peasants.
Power (Social sciences)
Rural women > Social conditions.
Sex role.
Social conditions
Alltag
Geschlechterverhältnis
Koloniale periode.
Vrouwen.
Sekseverschillen.
Estratificacao social.
Trabalho da mulher (direito do trabalho)
Trabalho rural.
Mexico > Social conditions.
Mexique > Conditions sociales.
Mexico.
Mexiko
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The journey
  • An invitation to readers
  • Power, patriarchy, and the Mexican poor: An inquiry
  • pt. 2. Before Zapata: Culture as argument
  • Counting surprises: The art of cultural exaggeration
  • women, man, and authority: The contested boundaries of gender right and obligation
  • Cultural legitimacy, cultural stigma: An interpretation of widows
  • The crossfires of gender and family, color and class: Solidarity, conflict, and ambivalence
  • Battle of patriacrhs: The world of male peasant violence
  • Gender culture and political culture: Languages of community, politics, and riot
  • pt. 3. Many Mexicos?: Culture as variation
  • Regionalism and Mexicanidad: Toward a framework
  • The Indian south: Gender, power, and ethnicity in Oaxaca
  • The Plebeian center: Struggling women and wayward patriarchs in Mexico City
  • The many Mexicos of every Mexican region: Morelos reconsidered
  • pt. 4. Reflections
  • Conclusion: Power and patriarchy in subaltern life, late colonial times
  • Postscript: The problem of ghosts.

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