Indian Women of Early Mexico Paperback – January 15, 1999

SUPER INTERESTING BOOK!if you want to know more about the Spanish conquest and how women changed the history of Mexico this book is for you!... Most of the time women are not named in history, but in Mesoamerican history, women were very important in their society. I loved this book, has many stories of great Aztec women that made a difference in history!I totally recomend it!

Great sources and very refreshing interpretation on women's roles in Mexica society. I particularly liked Susan Kellogg's research on Tenochca Women and their participation in the uprise against the invaders.She describes how women's roles were ignored by the Spanish and their representation in original sources are very obscured by the machismo of the Europeans.

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This collection of scholarly essays, mostly relating to Nahuas in the Valley of Mexico but containing some pieces on Mayan-speaking communities in Yucatan, should be very helpful to students, studied and amateur, of the American-Hispano cultures following the Spanish assault on these areas. All the selections relate directly to the lives of women in these areas, as the title would lead you to expect, but readers will find that this approach sheds light on the lives of common people generally and the social structures as seen from the below. Readers do not need to belong to one or another school of women's studies to enjoy the book and profit from it. Writing style is mostly very straightforward and in fact even vividly concrete, with little academiotic harangue.I got hold of this book in the course of Nahuatl language study, and several of the essays were in fact valuable for this purpose. Generally, the writers assume that readers will pay close attention to Nahuatl, Mayan and Spanish language elements, but it is not necessary to actually have a background in these languages to use the work.Contents:Mexica women on the home front : housework and religion in Aztec Mexico / Louise M. BurkhartAztec wives / Arthur J. O. AndersonIndian-Spanish marriages in the first century of the colony / Pedro CarrascoGender and social identity : Nahua naming patterns in postconquest Central Mexico / Rebecca HornFrom parallel and equivalent to separate but unequal : Tenochca Mexica women, 1500-1700 / Susan KellogActivist or adulteress? The life and struggle of Doña Josefa María of Tepoztlan / Robert HasketMatters of life at death : Nahuatl testaments of rural women, 1589-1801 / Stephanie WoodMixteca cacicas : status, wealth, and the political accommodation of native elite women in early colonial Oaxaca / Ronald SporeWomen and crime in colonial Oaxaca : evidence of complementary gender roles in Mixtec and Zapotec societies / Lisa Mary SousaWomen, rebellion, and the moral economy of Maya peasants in colonial Mexico / Kevin GosnerWork, marriage, and status : Maya women of colonial Yucatan / Marta Espejo-Ponce Hunt and Matthew RestallDouble jeopardy : Indian women in Jesuit missions of Nueva Vizcaya / Susan M. DeedsWomen's voices from the frontier : San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala in the late eighteenth century / Leslie S. OffuttRethinking Malinche / Frances Karttunen.Extensive notes.

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