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The secret history of gender : women, men, and power in late colonial Mexico / Steve J. Stern.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Original language: English Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 478 pages) : mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0807864803
  • 9780807864807
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Secret history of gender.DDC classification:
  • 305.3/0972 20
LOC classification:
  • HQ1075.5.M6 S74 1995eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
  • NW 2671
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. The journey -- An invitation to readers -- Power, patriarchy, and the Mexican poor: An inquiry -- pt. 2. Before Zapata: Culture as argument -- Counting surprises: The art of cultural exaggeration -- women, man, and authority: The contested boundaries of gender right and obligation -- Cultural legitimacy, cultural stigma: An interpretation of widows -- The crossfires of gender and family, color and class: Solidarity, conflict, and ambivalence -- Battle of patriacrhs: The world of male peasant violence -- Gender culture and political culture: Languages of community, politics, and riot -- pt. 3. Many Mexicos?: Culture as variation -- Regionalism and Mexicanidad: Toward a framework -- The Indian south: Gender, power, and ethnicity in Oaxaca -- The Plebeian center: Struggling women and wayward patriarchs in Mexico City -- The many Mexicos of every Mexican region: Morelos reconsidered -- pt. 4. Reflections -- Conclusion: Power and patriarchy in subaltern life, late colonial times -- Postscript: The problem of ghosts.
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Summary: In this study of gender relations in late colonial Mexico (ca. 1760-1821), Steve Stern analyzes the historical connections between gender, power, and politics in the lives of peasants, Indians, and other marginalized peoples. Through vignettes of everyday life, including the routine conflicts and violence that resulted from cultural arguments over gender right, he challenges assumptions about gender relations and political culture in a patriarchal society. He also reflects on continuity and change between late colonial times and the present and suggests a paradigm for understanding similar struggles over gender rights in Old Regime societies in Europe and the Americas. The historical arguments and conceptual sweep of Stern's book will inform not only students of Mexico and Latin America but also students of gender in the West and other world regions. Stern's interpretation both undermines and transcends previous perceptions of a single Latin American gender culture, including the notions of male rage and female complicity.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-466) and index.

In this study of gender relations in late colonial Mexico (ca. 1760-1821), Steve Stern analyzes the historical connections between gender, power, and politics in the lives of peasants, Indians, and other marginalized peoples. Through vignettes of everyday life, including the routine conflicts and violence that resulted from cultural arguments over gender right, he challenges assumptions about gender relations and political culture in a patriarchal society. He also reflects on continuity and change between late colonial times and the present and suggests a paradigm for understanding similar struggles over gender rights in Old Regime societies in Europe and the Americas. The historical arguments and conceptual sweep of Stern's book will inform not only students of Mexico and Latin America but also students of gender in the West and other world regions. Stern's interpretation both undermines and transcends previous perceptions of a single Latin American gender culture, including the notions of male rage and female complicity.

pt. 1. The journey -- An invitation to readers -- Power, patriarchy, and the Mexican poor: An inquiry -- pt. 2. Before Zapata: Culture as argument -- Counting surprises: The art of cultural exaggeration -- women, man, and authority: The contested boundaries of gender right and obligation -- Cultural legitimacy, cultural stigma: An interpretation of widows -- The crossfires of gender and family, color and class: Solidarity, conflict, and ambivalence -- Battle of patriacrhs: The world of male peasant violence -- Gender culture and political culture: Languages of community, politics, and riot -- pt. 3. Many Mexicos?: Culture as variation -- Regionalism and Mexicanidad: Toward a framework -- The Indian south: Gender, power, and ethnicity in Oaxaca -- The Plebeian center: Struggling women and wayward patriarchs in Mexico City -- The many Mexicos of every Mexican region: Morelos reconsidered -- pt. 4. Reflections -- Conclusion: Power and patriarchy in subaltern life, late colonial times -- Postscript: The problem of ghosts.

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