This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural
history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain,
from the Spanish conquest through the first half of the eighteenth
century. In this expansive account, Lisa Sousa focuses on four
native groups in highland Mexico—the Nahua, Mixtec, Zapotec, and
Mixe—and traces cross-cultural similarities and differences in
the roles and status attributed to women in prehispanic and
colonial Mesoamerica. Sousa intricately renders the full complexity
of women's life experiences in the household and community, from
the significance of their names, age, and social standing, to their
identities, ethnicities, family, dress, work, roles, sexuality,
acts of resistance, and relationships with men and other women.
Drawing on a rich collection of archival, textual, and pictorial
sources, she traces the shifts in women's economic, political, and
social standing to evaluate the influence of Spanish ideologies on
native attitudes and practices around sex and gender in the first
several generations after contact. Though catastrophic
depopulation, economic pressures, and the imposition of
Christianity slowly eroded indigenous women's status following the
Spanish conquest, Sousa argues that gender relations nevertheless
remained more complementary than patriarchal, with women
maintaining a unique position across the first two centuries of
colonial rule.
General
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2020 |
| First published: |
2017 |
| Authors: |
Lisa Sousa
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
424 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5036-1362-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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| LSN: |
1-5036-1362-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781503613621 |
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