The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico - Tapa blanda

This is a complex book well worth reading, and Stern provides important insights that scholars may debate for some time."Journal of Social History" A remarkable work, theorizing patriarchy as ever-changing rather than static. "Canadians Journal of Latin American/Caribbean Studies" This is a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich study of gender and popular political culture in colonial Mexico. "American Historical Review" "This is a complex book well worth reading, and Stern provides important insights that scholars may debate for some time."Journal of Social History"" One of the most significant contributions to Latin American and women's history published in the past two decades."Western Historical Quarterly" "A remarkable work, theorizing patriarchy as ever-changing rather than static. "Canadians Journal of Latin American/Caribbean Studies"" An elegant and convincing analysis of gender relations."Colonial Latin American Historical Review"

In this study of gender relations in late colonial Mexico (ca. 1760-1821), Steve Stern analyzes the historical connections between gender, power, and politics in the lives of peasants, Indians, and other marginalized peoples. Through vignettes of everyday life, he challenges assumptions about gender relations and political culture in a patriarchal society. He also reflects on continuity and change between late colonial times and the present and suggests a paradigm for understanding similar struggles over gender rights in Old Regime societies in Europe and the Americas. Stern pursues three major arguments. First, he demonstrates that non-elite women and men developed contending models of legitimate gender authority and that these differences sparked bitter struggles over gender right and obligation. Second, he reveals connections, in language and social dynamics, between disputes over legitimate authority in domestic and familial matters and disputes in the arenas of community and state power. The result is a fresh interpretation of the gendered dynamics of peasant politics, community, and riot. Third, Stern examines regional and ethnocultural variation and finds that his analysis transcends particular locales and ethnic subgroupings within Mexico. The historical arguments and conceptual sweep of Stern's book will inform not only students of Mexico and Latin America but also students of gender in the West and other world regions. |An illustrated history of the hurricanes known to have struck North Carolina from the days of the first European settlers to the present. This edition takes into account the three major storms--Bonnie, Dennis, and Floyd--that have hit North Carolina since the last edition was published in 1998.