The woman who turned into a jaguar, and other narratives of native women in archives of colonial Mexico / Lisa Sousa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sousa, Lisa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian women--Mexico--Social conditions.

Indian women.

Mexico--Social conditions--To 1810.

Mexico.

Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half of the eighteenth century. In this expansive account, Lisa Sousa focuses on four native groups in highland Mexico - the Nahua, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Mixe - and traces cross-cultural similarities and differences in the roles and status attributed to women in prehispanic and colonial Mesoamerica.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures, Tables, and Maps

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Gender and the Body

3. Marriage Encounters

4. Marital Relations

5. Sexual Attitudes and Concepts

6. Sexual Crimes

7. Duties and Responsibilities

8. Household and Community

9. Rebellious Women

10. Conclusion

Glossary

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503601116

1503601110

OCLC:

1198929671