Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856

Name: Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856
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ISBN: 9780803238336

ISBN-10: 0803238339

ISBN-13: 9780803238336

Edition: 2012

Authors: Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

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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 generals or politicians but whether they themselves could make a living, whether others accorded them the respect they deserved, whether they were safe from an abusive husband, whether their wives and children would obey them—in short, the minutiae of daily life.Sonya Lipsett-Rivera’s Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750–1856explores the relationships between Mexicans, their…

Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 5/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera is a professor of history at Carleton University. She is the author ofTo Defend Our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Pueblaand coeditor ofThe Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America.