Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880Oxford University Press, 1999 M11 4 - 208 páginas Refusing the Favor tells the little-known story of the Spanish-Mexican women who saw their homeland become part of New Mexico. A corrective to traditional narratives of the period, it carefully and lucidly documents the effects of colonization, looking closely at how the women lived both before and after the United States took control of the region. Focusing on Santa Fe, which was long one of the largest cities west of the Mississippi, Deena González demonstrates that women's responses to the conquest were remarkably diverse and that their efforts to preserve their culture were complex and long-lasting. Drawing on a range of sources, from newspapers to wills, deeds, and court records, González shows that the change to U.S. territorial status did little to enrich or empower the Spanish-Mexican inhabitants. The vast majority, in fact, found themselves quickly impoverished, and this trend toward low-paid labor, particularly for women, continues even today. González both examines the long-term consequences of colonization and draws illuminating parallels with the experiences of other minorities. Refusing the Favor also describes how and why Spanish-Mexican women have remained invisible in the histories of the region for so long. It avoids casting the story as simply "bad" Euro-American migrants and "good" local people by emphasizing the concrete details of how women lived. It covers every aspect of their experience, from their roles as businesswomen to the effects of intermarriage, and it provides an essential key to the history of New Mexico. Anyone with an interest in Western history, gender studies, Chicano/a studies, or the history of borderlands and colonization will find the book an invaluable resource and guide. |
Contenido
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Conformity and Dissonance before the War 18211846 | 17 |
Sexuality and the Gendered Economies of Colonization 18401852 | 39 |
Gifts and Giving as Methods of Resistance 18461880 | 79 |
Notations about the New Western American History | 107 |
Epilogue | 123 |
Notes | 125 |
Bibliography | 159 |
Index | 179 |
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Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 Deena J. Gonzalez Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 Deena J. González Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
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Página 78 - ... of cattle; blessed with a climate, than which there can be no better in the world; free from all manner of diseases, whether epidemic or endemic; and with a soil in which corn yields from seventy to eighty fold. In the hands of an enterprising people, what a country this might be!
Página 56 - These were dressed in the Mexican style; large sleeves, short waists, ruffled skirts, and no bustles — which latter looks exceedingly odd in this day of grass skirts and pillows. All danced and smoked cigarittos, from the old woman with false hair and teeth [Dona Tula], to the little...
Página 48 - It was late, and an immense amount of silver and gold was piled upon the table. A female was dealing, (the famous Senora Toulous) and had you looked in her countenance for any symptom by which to discover how the game stood, you would have turned away unsatisfied; for calm seriousness was alone discernible, and the cards fell from her fingers as steadily as though she were handling only a knitting needle. But the man who sat opposite to her exhibited the full reverse of this. His fingers trembled,...
Página 68 - Among the females present, I remarked one, whose face — though she was by no means advanced in life — bore most unmistakably the impress of her fearful calling, being scarred and seamed, and rendered unwomanly by those painful lines which unbridled passions and midnight watching never fail to stamp upon the countenance of their votary. I afterward learned that this person was the most notorious, if not the most accomplished gambler in New Mexico, where she had obtained by her unprecedented successes...
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