Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856 /
History is not just about great personalities, wars, and revolutions; it is also about the subtle aspects of more ordinary matters. On a day-to-day basis the aspects of life that most preoccupied people in late eighteenth- through mid nineteenth-century Mexico were not the political machinations of...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2012.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Negotiating daily life
- Space and Mexican society
- Behind closed doors
- Beyond the door
- The body in daily life
- The head, honor, and aggression
- Power, sex, hair, and clothes
- Culture, honor, and gender in Mexico.