Gender In Pre Hispanic America

Author : Cecelia F. Klein
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022794
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender in Pre-Hispanic America written by Cecelia F. Klein and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2001 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender in Pre-Hispanic America offers rich opportunities for comprehending current trends and considering future directions in research. It is unique in that it puts social theory at the forefront of the discussion. The book has a special intellectual presence and contemporary relevance in its engagement with the social lives and constructs of its authors and readers alike. The consideration of the role of gender in our daily lives, including in our professions, becomes inescapable when reading this book. It is not simply a question of men's roles having been possibly overemphasized and overstudied to the detriment of women's. The fact that genders, as opposed to sexes, are socially constructed categories focuses our attention on the ways in which these and other social constructs have shaped our present understanding of the past and informed past peoples' understand of their present. In various articles in this book, the reader will not find unanimity in what is meant by "gender" or how to go about studying it. What will be found, however, is a collection of interesting, informed, thought-provoking, and often lively essays. It is hoped that this volume will mark a stage in an evolving study of this field and provoke new research in the future.

Author : Cecelia F. Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender in Pre-Hispanic America written by Cecelia F. Klein and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Texler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Subordination and Political Hierarchy in Pre-Hispanic America written by R. Texler and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196655
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women of Colonial Latin America written by Susan Migden Socolow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

Author : Teresa A. Meade
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470692820
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Gender History written by Teresa A. Meade and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of womenaround the world, studies their interaction with men in genderedsocieties, and looks at the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. An extensive survey of the history of women around the world,their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. Discusses family history, the history of the body andsexuality, and cultural history alongside women’s history andgender history. Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race andreligion to the formation of gendered societies. Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographicessays. Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as wellas to the modern era. Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world andscholars for whom English is not their first language.

Author : Virginia E. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Gender in Precolumbian Art and Architecture written by Virginia E. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Kellogg
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195123816
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weaving the Past written by Susan Kellogg and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2005-09-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving the Past is the first comprehensive history of Latin America's indigenous women. While concentrating mainly on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it also covers indigenous peoples in a variety of areas of South and Central America. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, it argues that change, not continuity, has been the norm for indigenous peoples whose resilience in the face of complex and long-term patterns of cultural change is due in no small part to the roles, actions, and agency of women.

Author : Karen Vieira Powers
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826335197
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Crucible of Conquest written by Karen Vieira Powers and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of women's contributions to the Spanish colonization of the New World.

Author : Margarita R. Ochoa
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806169788
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cacicas written by Margarita R. Ochoa and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, the female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the term’s meaning was adapted and manipulated by natives, creating a new social stratum where it previously may not have existed. This book explores that transformation, a conscious construction and reshaping of identity from within. Cacicas feature far and wide in the history of Spanish America, as female governors and tribute collectors and as relatives of ruling caciques—or their destitute widows. They played a crucial role in the establishment and success of Spanish rule, but were also instrumental in colonial natives’ resistance and self-definition. In this volume, noted scholars uncover the history of colonial cacicas, moving beyond anecdotes of individuals in Spanish America. Their work focuses on the evolution of indigenous leadership, particularly the lineage and succession of these positions in different regions, through the lens of native women’s political activism. Such activism might mean the intervention of cacicas in the economic, familial, and religious realms or their participation in official and unofficial matters of governance. The authors explore the role of such personal authority and political influence across a broad geographic, chronological, and thematic range—in patterns of succession, the settling of frontier regions, interethnic relations and the importance of purity of blood, gender and family dynamics, legal and marital strategies for defending communities, and the continuation of indigenous governance. This volume showcases colonial cacicas as historical subjects who constructed their consciousness around their place, whether symbolic or geographic, and articulated their own unique identities. It expands our understanding of the significant influence these women exerted—within but also well beyond the native communities of Spanish America.

Author : Loretta Victoria Ramirez
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271098546
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wound and the Stitch written by Loretta Victoria Ramirez and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wound and the Stitch traces a history of imagery and language centered on the concept of woundedness and the stitching together of fragmented selves. Focusing particularly on California and its historical violences against Chicanx bodies, Loretta Victoria Ramirez argues that woundedness has become a ubiquitous and significant form of Chicanx self-representation, especially in late twentieth-century print media and art. Ramirez maps a genealogy of the female body from late medieval Iberian devotional sculptures to contemporary strategies of self-representation. By doing so, she shows how wounds—metaphorical, physical, historical, and linguistic—are inherited and manifested as ongoing violations of the body and othered forms of identity. Beyond simply exposing these wounds, however, Ramirez also shows us how they can be healed—or rather stitched. Drawing on Mesoamerican concepts of securing stability during lived turmoil, or nepantla, Ramirez investigates how creators such as Cherríe Moraga, Renee Tajima-Peña, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Amalia Mesa-Bains repurpose the concept of woundedness to advocate for redress and offer delicate, ephemeral moments of healing. Positioning woundedness as a potent method to express Chicanx realities and transform the self from one that is wounded to one that is stitched, this book emphasizes the necessity of acknowledgment and ethical restitution for colonial legacies. It will be valued by scholars and students interested in the history of rhetorics, twentieth-century Chicanx art, and Latinx studies.