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Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s
Miroslava Chávez-García
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Paperback. Num Pages: 241 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Conquest usually has a negative impact on the vanquished, but it can also provide the disenfranchised in conquered societies with new tools for advancement within their families and communities. This study examines the ways in which Mexican and Native women challenged the patriarchal traditional culture of the Spanish, Mexican, and early American eras in California, tracing the shifting contingencies surrounding their lives from the imposition of Spanish Catholic colonial rule in the 1770s to the ascendancy of Euro-American Protestant capitalist society in the 1880s. Negotiating Conquest begins with an examination of how gender and ethnicity shaped the policies and practices ... Read more
Conquest usually has a negative impact on the vanquished, but it can also provide the disenfranchised in conquered societies with new tools for advancement within their families and communities. This study examines the ways in which Mexican and Native women challenged the patriarchal traditional culture of the Spanish, Mexican, and early American eras in California, tracing the shifting contingencies surrounding their lives from the imposition of Spanish Catholic colonial rule in the 1770s to the ascendancy of Euro-American Protestant capitalist society in the 1880s. Negotiating Conquest begins with an examination of how gender and ethnicity shaped the policies and practices ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
241
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816526000
SKU
V9780816526000
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