Refusing the favor : the Spanish-Mexican women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 / Deena J. González.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González, Deena J., 1952- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American women--New Mexico--Santa Fe--History--19th century.

Mexican American women.

Mexican American women--New Mexico--Santa Fe--Social conditions--19th century.

Colonization--New Mexico--Santa Fe--History--19th century.

Colonization.

Santa Fe (N.M.)--Ethnic relations.

Santa Fe (N.M.).

Santa Fe (N.M.)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xx, 186 p.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author examines and explains how Mexico's northern land, New Mexico, came under the authority of the United States and what role women and gender played in the political game of conquest.

Contents:

1. Women in the Courts Conformity and Dissonance before the War, 1821-1846

2. Women under Siege: Sexuality and the Gendered Economics of Colonization, 1840-1852

3. Women's Survival Strategies: Gifts and Giving as Methods of Resistance, 1846-1880

4. The Politics of Disidentification and Recuperation: Notations about the "New" Western American History.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-771579-6

0-19-028709-8

1-280-44981-0

0-19-802409-6

9786610449811

1-280-83544-3

9786610835447

0-19-534919-9

1-60256-464-7

OCLC:

475955914