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False Mystics
Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico
E-bok, 2005
250 kr
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False Mystics provides a history of popular religion, race, and gender in colonial Mexico focusing on questions of spiritual and social rebellion and conformity. Nora E. Jaffary examines more than one hundred trials of "false mystics" whom the Mexican Inquisition prosecuted in the seventeenth and …
Domestic Economies
Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943
Av Ann S. Blum
Häftad, 2010
340 kr
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When Porfirio Díaz extended his modernization initiative in Mexico to the administration of public welfare, the families and especially the children of the urban poor became a government concern. Reforming the poor through work and by bolstering Mexico's emerging middle class were central to the …
False Mystics
Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico
Häftad, 2008
274 kr
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False Mystics provides a history of popular religion, race, and gender in colonial Mexico focusing on questions of spiritual and social rebellion and conformity. Nora E. Jaffary examines more than one hundred trials of "false mystics" whom the Mexican Inquisition prosecuted in the seventeenth and …
From Colony to Nation
Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912-1982
Häftad, 2009
282 kr
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The first book on women's political history in Belize, From Colony to Nation demonstrates that women were creators of and activists within the two principal political currents of twentieth-century Belize: colonial-middle class reform and popular labor-nationalism. As such, their alliances and …
Domestic Economies
Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943
Av Ann S. Blum
E-bok, 2010
312 kr
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When Porfirio Díaz extended his modernization initiative in Mexico to the administration of public welfare, the families and especially the children of the urban poor became a government concern. Reforming the poor through work and by bolstering Mexico's emerging middle class were central to the …
Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786-1904
Häftad, 2004
408 kr
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Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela examines the effects that liberalism had on gender relations in the process of state formation in Caracas from the late eighteenth to the nineteenth century. The 1811 Venezuelan constitution granted everyone in the abstract, including women, the …
Culture of Everyday Credit
Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750-1920
Häftad, 2006
340 kr
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Pawning was the most common credit mechanism in Mexico City in the nineteenth century. A diverse, largely female pawning clientele from lower- and middle-class households regularly secured small consumption loans by hocking household goods. A two-tiered sector of public and private pawnbrokers …
Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires
Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina
Av Donna J. Guy
Häftad, 1995
282 kr
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A study of prostitution necessarily examines questions of power, class, gender, and public health. In Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires these questions combine with particular force. During most of the time covered in this provocative book, from the late nineteenth century well into the twentieth, …
White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead
The Troubled Meeting of Sex, Gender, Public Health, and Progress in Latin America
Av Donna J. Guy
Häftad, 2000
359 kr
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White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead brings together a diverse set of essays exploring topics ranging from public health and child welfare to criminality and industrialization. What the essays have in common is their gendered connection to work, family, and the rise of increasingly …
Mexican Karismata
The Baroque Vocation of Francisca De Los Angeles, 1674-1744
Häftad, 2004
334 kr
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Mexican Karismata chronicles the life of Francisca de los Ángeles (1674–1744), the daughter of a poor Creole mother and mestizo father who became a renowned holy woman in her native city of Querétaro, Mexico, during the high Baroque period. As a precocious young visionary and later as the …
I'm Going to Have a Little House
The Second Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesus
Häftad, 1997
231 kr
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In August 1960 the publication of Quarto de Despejo (Child of the Dark) created a sensation in Brazil—and in the rest of the world—as it appeared in translations in fourteen languages. That diary of a poor black woman from a favela on the outskirts of São Paulo became the best-selling book in …
Class Mates
Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Häftad, 2002
398 kr
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This innovative study considers how approximately seven thousand male graduates of law came to understand themselves as having a legitimate claim to authority over nineteenth-century Brazilian society during their transition from boyhood to manhood. While pursuing their traditional studies at …
Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890–1940
Häftad, 1998
340 kr
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Feminists in the Southern Cone countries—Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay—between 1910 and 1930 obliged political leaders to consider gender in labor regulation, civil codes, public health programs, and politics. Feminism thus became a factor in the modernization of these geographically linked but …
Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Histories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Bueno
Häftad, 2005
334 kr
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In 1840 Gumerscindo Arroyo hoped to marry Francisca Canicoba, but her father forbade it. Consequently, Francisca took her father to court for permission to marry, where he objected on the grounds that Arroyo was simply too ugly. In the courtrooms of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, children battled …
Maricas
Queer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942–1982
Inbunden, 2024
1152 kr
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In Maricas Javier FernÁndez-Galeano traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish gender- and sexually nonconforming people who carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s. In both countries, agents of the state, judiciary, and …
Maricas
Queer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942–1982
Häftad, 2024
340 kr
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In Maricas Javier FernÁndez-Galeano traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish gender- and sexually nonconforming people who carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s. In both countries, agents of the state, judiciary, and …
Abortion in Mexico
A History
Inbunden, 2024
1152 kr
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Abortion in Mexico: A History concisely examines the long history of abortion from the early postcontact period through the present day in Mexico by studying the law, criminal and ecclesiastical trials, medical texts, newspapers, and other popular publications.Nora E. Jaffary draws on courts’ and …
Maricas
Queer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942–1982
E-bok, 2024
303 kr
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In Maricas Javier FernÁndez-Galeano traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish gender- and sexually nonconforming people who carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s. In both countries, agents of the state, judiciary, and …
Maricas
Queer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942–1982
E-bok, 2024
302 kr
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In Maricas Javier FernÁndez-Galeano traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish gender- and sexually nonconforming people who carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s. In both countries, agents of the state, judiciary, and …
Counterrevolutionary Women
Race, Gender, and Mexico's Unfinished Religious Restoration, 1917–1946
Av Ricardo J. Álvarez-Pimentel
Inbunden, 2026
1646 kr
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Following the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Mexico City's upper-class laywomen were at the helm of a formidable religious movement that strove to counter state-mandated secular education and its perceived corruption of Mexican society. Known as the Acción Católica Mexicana, or Mexican Catholic …
Abortion in Mexico
A History
Häftad, 2024
282 kr
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Abortion in Mexico: A History concisely examines the long history of abortion from the early postcontact period through the present day in Mexico by studying the law, criminal and ecclesiastical trials, medical texts, newspapers, and other popular publications.Nora E. Jaffary draws on courts’ and …
Abortion in Mexico
A History
E-bok, 2024
258 kr
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Abortion in Mexico: A History concisely examines the long history of abortion from the early postcontact period through the present day in Mexico by studying the law, criminal and ecclesiastical trials, medical texts, newspapers, and other popular publications.Nora E. Jaffary draws on courts’ and …
Abortion in Mexico
A History
E-bok, 2024
258 kr
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Abortion in Mexico: A History concisely examines the long history of abortion from the early postcontact period through the present day in Mexico by studying the law, criminal and ecclesiastical trials, medical texts, newspapers, and other popular publications.Nora E. Jaffary draws on courts’ and …
Señorita Telefonista
Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination, and Class Identities in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico City
Inbunden, 2026
1152 kr
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In Señorita Telefonista Susie S. Porter recounts the dynamic role of telephone operators in labor organizing in early twentieth-century Mexico City, taking us from switchboards to union halls and into the streets as working women fought for better wages and against sexual discrimination and …
Señorita Telefonista
Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination, and Class Identities in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico City
Häftad, 2026
398 kr
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In Señorita Telefonista Susie S. Porter recounts the dynamic role of telephone operators in labor organizing in early twentieth-century Mexico City, taking us from switchboards to union halls and into the streets as working women fought for better wages and against sexual discrimination and …
One of Those Actresses
A Gendered History of Theater, Dance, and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Inbunden, 2027
1167 kr
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Counterrevolutionary Women
Race, Gender, and Mexico's Unfinished Religious Restoration, 1917–1946
Av Ricardo J. Álvarez-Pimentel
Häftad, 2026
580 kr
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Following the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Mexico City's upper-class laywomen were at the helm of a formidable religious movement that strove to counter state-mandated secular education and its perceived corruption of Mexican society. Known as the Acción Católica Mexicana, or Mexican Catholic …
One of Those Actresses
A Gendered History of Theater, Dance, and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Häftad, 2027
367 kr
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