Format:
Online-Ressource (333 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780803238336
Series Statement:
The Mexican experience
Content:
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 th
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Negotiating Daily Life; 2. Space and Mexican Society; 3. Behind Closed Doors; 4. Beyond the Door; 5. The Body in Daily Life; 6. The Head, Honor, and Aggression; 7. Power, Sex, Hair, and Clothes; 8. Culture, Honor, and Gender in Mexico; Notes; Bibliography; Index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803240339
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803238336
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
