Women in the Crucible of Conquest
Title | Women in the Crucible of Conquest PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Vieira Powers |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780826335197 |
The first history of women's contributions to the Spanish colonization of the New World.
Women's Lives in Colonial Quito
Title | Women's Lives in Colonial Quito PDF eBook |
Author | Kimberly Gauderman |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2003-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780292705555 |
* Undermines the long-accepted patriarchal model of colonial society by uncovering the active participation of indigenous, mestiza, and Spanish women of all social classes in many aspects of civil life in seventeenth-century Quito
The Women of Colonial Latin America
Title | The Women of Colonial Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Migden Socolow |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2000-05-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521476423 |
Surveying the varied experiences of women in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America, this book traces the effects of conquest, colonisation, and settlement on colonial women, beginning with the cultures that would produce Latin America.
Los Invisibles
Title | Los Invisibles PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Cleminson |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2011-07-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 070832469X |
Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing research which concentrates on literature and literary figures, Los Invisibles focuses on the change in cultural representation of same-sex activity of through medicalisation, social and political anxieties about race and the late emergence of homosexual sub-cultures in the last quarter of the twentieth century. As such, this book constitutes an analysis of discourses and ideas from a social history and medical history position. Much of the research for the book was supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust to research the medicalisation of homosexuality in Spain. A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.
Discordant Notes
Title | Discordant Notes PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Llano |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2018-10-31 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199392471 |
Scholarship on urban culture and the senses has traditionally focused on the study of literature and the visual arts. Recent decades have seen a surge of interest on the effects of sound the urban space and its population. These studies analyse how sound generates identities that are often fragmentary and mutually conflicting. They also explore the ways in which sound triggers campaigns against the negative effects of noise on the nerves and health of the population. Little research has been carried out about the impact of sound and music in areas of broader social and political concern such as social aid, hygiene and social control. Based on a detailed study of Madrid from the 1850s to the 1930s, Discordant Notes argues that sound and music have played a key role in structuring the transition to modernity by helping to negotiate social attitudes and legal responses to problems such as poverty, insalubrity, and crime. Attempts to control the social groups that own unwanted musical practices such as organ grinding and flamenco performances in taverns raised awareness about public hygiene, alcoholism and crime, and triggered legal reform in these areas. In addition to scapegoating, marginalising and persecuting these musical practices, the authorities and the media used workhouse bands as instruments of social control to spread "aural hygiene" across the city.
Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America
Title | Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Asunci¢n Lavrin |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803279407 |
"Few decisions in life should be more personal than the choice of a spouse or lover. Yet, throughout history, this intimate experience has been subjected to painstaking social and religious regulation in the form of legislation and restraining social mores." With that statement, Asunción Lavrin begins her introduction to this collection of original essays, the first in English to explore sexuality and marriage in colonial Latin America. The nine contributors, including historians and anthropologists, examine various aspects of the male-female relationship and the mechanisms for controlling it developed by church and state after the European conquest of Mexico and Central and South America. Seldom has so much light been shed on the sexual behavior of the men and women who lived there from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. These chapters examine the variety of sexual expression in different periods and among persons of different social and economic status, the relations of the sexes as proscribed by church and state and the various forms of resistance to their constraints, the couple's own view of the bond that united them and of their social obligations in producing a family, and the dissolution of that bond. Topics infrequently explored in Latin American history but discussed her include premarital relations, illegitimacy, consensual unions, sexual witchcraft, spouse abuse, and divorce. Lavrin's opening survey of the forms of sexual relationships most discussed in ecclesiastical sources serves as a point of departure for the chapters that follow. The contributors are Serge Grunzinski, Ann Twinam, Kathy Waldron, Ruth Behar, Susan Socolow, Richard Boyer, Thomas Calvo, and María Beatriz Nizza da Silva. Asunción Lavrin is a professor of history at Arizona State University at Tempe. Her 1995 book, Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940, won the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize from the Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies.
Martin's Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans, and in the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana ... By Francois Xavier Martin. With Marginal References by T. G. Morgan [and J. W. Gurley. Index, Etc.].
Title | Martin's Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans, and in the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana ... By Francois Xavier Martin. With Marginal References by T. G. Morgan [and J. W. Gurley. Index, Etc.]. PDF eBook |
Author | LOUISIANA, State of. Supreme Court |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 792 |
Release | 1853 |
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