Refusing the Favor : the Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880.

Refusing the Favor : the Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880.

Refusing the Favor tells the little-known story of the Spanish-Mexican women who saw their homeland become part of New Mexico. A corrective to traditional narratives of the period, it carefully and lucidly documents the effects of colonization, looking closely at how the women lived both before and...

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Main Author: Gonzalez, Deena J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Mexican American women > New Mexico > Santa Fe > History > 19th century.
Mexican American women > New Mexico > Santa Fe > Social conditions > 19th century.
Colonization > History > 19th century.
Colonization
Ethnic relations
Mexican American women
Mexican American women > Social conditions
Social conditions
Santa Fe (N.M.) > Ethnic relations.
Santa Fe (N.M.) > Social conditions.
New Mexico > Santa Fe
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Note on Terminology; Prologue; 1 Women in the Courts: Conformity and Dissonance before the War, 1821-1846; 2 Women under Siege: Sexuality and the Gendered Economies of Colonization, 1840-1852; 3 Women's Survival Strategies: Gifts and Giving as Methods of Resistance, 1846-1880; 4 The Politics of Disidentification and Recuperation: Notations about the "New" Western American History; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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