Indian women of early Mexico / edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett.

Other author Schroeder, Susan.
Other author Wood, Stephanie, 1954-
Other author Haskett, Robert Stephen, 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoNorman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©1997.
Descriptionx, 486 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
Indian women--Mexico. --History. --Sources.
Indian women--Mexico. --Ethnic identity.
Indian women--Mexico. --Social conditions.
Ethnohistory--Mexico.
Mexico--Social life and customs.

Contents Mexican women on the home front : housework and religion in Aztec Mexico -- Aztec wives -- Indian-Spanish marriages in the first century of the colony -- Gender and social identity : Nahua naming patterns in postconquest Central Mexico -- From parallel and equivalent to separate but unequal : Tenochca Mexican women, 1500-1700 -- Activist or adulteress? The life and struggle of Dona Josefa María of Tepoztlan -- Matters of life at death : Nahuatl testaments of rural women, 1589-1801 -- Mixteca cacicas : status, wealth, and the political accommodation of native elite women in early colonial Oaxaca -- Women and crime in colonial Oaxaca : evidence of complementary gender roles in Mixtec and Zapotec societies -- Women, rebellion, and the moral economy of Maya peasants in colonial Mexico -- Work, marriage, and status : Maya women of colonial Yucatan -- Double jeopardy : Indian women in Jesuit missions of Nueva Vizcaya -- Women's voices from the frontier : San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala in the late eighteenth century -- Rethinking Malinche.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [433]-466) and index.
LCCN 97008450
ISBN0806129700 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks F1219.3.W6 I53 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold