Gender and the negotiation of daily life in Mexico, 1750-1856 / Sonya Lipsett-Rivera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya, 1961-

Series:

Mexican experience.

The Mexican experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Mexico.

Sex role.

Human body--Social aspects--Mexico.

Human body.

Mexico--Civilization--18th century.

Mexico.

Mexico--Civilization--19th century.

Mexico--Social life and customs--18th century.

Mexico--Social life and customs--19th century.

Mexico--Social conditions--18th century.

Mexico--Social conditions--19th century.

Outer space--Social aspects--Mexico.

Outer space.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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-Ri

Contents:

Negotiating daily life

Space and Mexican society

Behind closed doors

Beyond the door

The body in daily life

The head, honor, and aggression

Power, sex, hair, and clothes

Culture, honor, and gender in Mexico.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613664501

9781280687563

1280687568

9780803240339

0803240333

OCLC:

792742055