Their Lives, Their Wills : Women in the Borderlands, 1750-1846 /

"In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de Bexar, a dying widow named María Concepción de Estrada recorded her last will and testament. Estrada used her will to record her debts and credits, specify her property, leave her belongings to her children, make requests for her funeral a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Porter, Amy M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Religiöst liv.
Patriarkat > sociala aspekter > historia.
Materiell kultur > historia.
Ekonomiska förhållanden.
Sociala förhållanden.
Kvinnor > historia.
Women > Social conditions.
Women.
Wills.
Social conditions.
Material culture.
Hispanic American women > Social conditions.
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
LAW > Wills.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Patriarcat (Sociologie) > Aspect social > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Histoire.
Culture materielle > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Histoire.
Femmes > Mexique (Nord) > Conditions sociales.
Americaines d'origine latino-americaine > États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Patriarchy > Social aspects > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Material culture > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Wills > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Women > Mexico, North > Social conditions.
Hispanic American women > Southwest, New > Social conditions.
Women > Mexican-American Border Region > History > 19th century.
Women > Mexican-American Border Region > History > 18th century.
New Southwest.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
North Mexico.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Conditions economiques.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Vie religieuse.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Conditions sociales.
Mexican-American Border Region > Economic conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region > Religious life and customs.
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de Bexar, a dying widow named María Concepción de Estrada recorded her last will and testament. Estrada used her will to record her debts and credits, specify her property, leave her belongings to her children, make requests for her funeral arrangements, and secure her religious salvation. Wills like Estrada's reveal much about women's lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities of Santa Fe, El Paso, San Antonio, Saltillo, and San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala in present-day northern Mexico. Using last wills and testaments as main sources, Amy M. Porter explores the ways in which these documents reveal details about religion, family, economics, and material culture. In addition, the wills speak loudly to the difficulties of frontier life, in which widowhood and child mortality were commonplace. Most importantly, information in the wills helps to explain the workings of the patriarchal system of Spanish and Mexican borderland communities, showing that gender role divisions were fluid in some respects. Supplemented by censuses, inventories, court cases, and travelers' accounts, women's wills paint a more complete picture of life in the borderlands than the previously male-dominated historiography of the region"--
""Examines the religion, family, economics, and material culture of women's lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities in 1750-1846 through women's wills. The wills help to explain the workings of the patriarchal system in the Spanish and Mexican borderland communities"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780896729339

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