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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
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.